From: Nigel Roles ngr@symbionics.co.uk
Subject: [9fans] re: emacs jokes -Reply
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 08:28:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19970909072827.yShrZDy8GYiKmbA4FZTVAxIwP7mv1a3clqVJUjV-0CM@z> (raw)
Called a Microwriter.
The same key system was used more recently on a machine called an
Agenda, but they put the keys to close together and wondered why nobody
bought it. In fact until you mentioned the Microwriter I'd forgoten all
about it!
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Stephen Simon [SMTP:SFSA@telecom.co.nz]
>Sent: Monday, September 08, 1997 11:01 PM
>To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
>Subject: Re: [9fans] re: emacs jokes -Reply
>
>
>Hi all,
>
>Don't joke about 5 button mice - I rembember a small box being marketed
>in the early 1980s that had 4 or 5 buttons, 16 character LCD display,
>an RS232 interface and basic word processing software (?!).
>
>You formed letters using combinations of button presses and could
>use it as a keyboard replacement or to pre-enter text before
>downloading when you reached the office. The claim was that users
>could type *real* fast using this box.
>
>Sadly I never bought or even tried one, however I always thought it was
>a great idea, and with a bouse ball on the bottom... more RSI I suspose.
>
>-Steve
>
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1997-09-09 7:28 Nigel [this message]
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