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From: bill@bilver.UUCP (Bill Vermillion)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.periphs
Subject: Re: Want information on "odd" keyboard.
Message-ID: <291@bilver.UUCP>
Date: 7 Nov 88 15:23:45 GMT
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Reply-To: bill@bilver.UUCP (Bill Vermillion)
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In article <9487@watdragon.waterloo.edu> jafischer@spurge.waterloo.edu (Jonathan A. Fischer) writes:
>In article <1553@gmu90x.UUCP> dana@gmu90x.UUCP (J Dana Eckart) writes:
>>
>>Some number of years ago (8?) I remember seeing an announcement for a
>>keyboard that consisted of two separate hemi-spherical parts, one for
>>the left hand and one for the right.  The idea seemed to be that the
>>shape was a better fit for the human hand.  

Several years ago - probably in the '78 to '80 time frame there was an
article, and my rusty memory thinks that it was in Interface Age, about a
SINGLE hemispherical input device.   The reason for 1 is the same as that of
the mouse today.

But the buttons were distributed in such a way that you did very little finger
movement.  It was combinations of keys that produced each letter, instead of 1
key 1 symbol and a standard keyboard, or 2 keys 1 symbol in shifted mode or
control key mode.  

The device was on the cover of the magazine, and was red.  If not Interface
Age, it may have been Byte, Rom, or one of the other early computer mags.

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