Xref: utzoo comp.misc:7779 comp.cog-eng:1510 Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!sce!cognos!garym From: garym@cognos.UUCP (Gary Murphy) Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.cog-eng Subject: Re: Multi-button mice (Re: Xerox sues Apple!) Message-ID: <7786@cognos.UUCP> Date: 22 Dec 89 15:31:26 GMT References: <172@comcon.UUCP> <7326@ficc.uu.net> <9320@hoptoad.uucp> <1989Dec18.081450.28019@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu> <2253@dataio.Data-IO.COM> Reply-To: garym@cognos.UUCP (Gary Murphy) Followup-To: comp.misc Organization: Cognos Inc., Ottawa, Canada Lines: 28 In article weening@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU (Joe Weening) writes: >In article <37371@apple.Apple.COM> baum@Apple.COM (Allen J. Baum) writes: > > >In article <2253@dataio.Data-IO.COM> aez@dataio.Data-IO.COM () writes: > >The Symbolics had a three-button mouse and software scannable control > >keys on the keyboard (control, meta, hyper, super, [shift counted as > >a double click]). The mouse, keyboard usage was suggested by > >Buckminster Fuller and Richard Zipple (project leader) called them > >"Bucky Keys". This is a bit askew from the original thread, but this reference caught my eye - does anyone have further references about R.B.Fuller's involvement with Symbolics? I don't remember any mention of Symbolics in his own writings, but it wouldn't be the first time he'd neglected to take credit. The only specific reference to a computer I can think of is the when he helped the Auto Workers Union calculate the benefits of an unprecedented wage increase (sometime in the '50's ?) using one of the first publicly available machines (GM gave them the money, and made a huge profit!). -- Gary Murphy decvax!utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!cognos!garym (garym%cognos.uucp@uunet.uu.net) (613) 738-1338 x5537 Cognos Inc. P.O. Box 9707 Ottawa K1G 3N3 "There are many things which do not concern the process" - Joan of Arc