You can also find a picture of Englebart's chord keyset at Stanford's
MouseSite:
http://sloan.stanford.edu/mousesite/Devices.cfm
Michael Nadeau
----- Original Message -----
From: "Douglas Quebbeman" <dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2000 10:11 AM
Subject: RE: Memorex/Termiflex One-handed terminal?
> > On Wed, 08 Nov 2000 15:07:20 -0600 Bill Richman
> > <bill_r_at_inetnebr.com> wrote:
> > > Our mainframe guys recently got rid of some big hard drive chassis,
> > > and in the process of cleaning up they were going to thow away (!) a
> > > couple of little Memorex/Termiflex one-handed terminals that I've
> > > lusted after ever since I saw the service engineer using them. I
> > > think they're a 1 or 2-line LED dot-matrix display, and
> > they have some
> > > form of "chording" keyboard on the front.
> >
> > Sounds like the old Microwriter, or even the original chord
> > keyboard that Doug Engelbart used with the mouse.
> >
> > I'd love to see a picture of one of these, to get some idea
> > of how the chording works. I have a couple of Microwriters:
>
> There are two photos of Doug's chord keyset in issue #4 of
> MacWorld. If you can't find a copy, let me know, I'll see if
> I can remeber to bring it in to the orifice and scan it for
> you.
>
> -dq
>
Received on Thu Nov 09 2000 - 09:41:15 GMT