From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Tue,  9 Sep 1997 09:07:54 +0100
From: David Johnston DJ@symbionics.co.uk
Subject: [9fans] re: emacs jokes  -Reply
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The Microwriter! A wonderful device. I used to use it to carry files
from my Apple ][ upstairs to my BBC micro downstairs. You could stash
about 4k of text in the memory once you'd worked out all the bizarre
things that they'd done to the serial port. Would anyone care to do an
inferno port?


>-----Original Message-----
>From:	Nigel Roles [SMTP:ngr@symbionics.co.uk]
>Sent:	09 September 1997 08:28
>To:	'9fans@cse.psu.edu'
>Subject:	RE: [9fans] re: emacs jokes  -Reply
>
>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
>>