At 18:41 5/29/98 PDT, Max wrote:
>2)It mentioned a "new input device" that was before the Xerox machine,
>to be used alongside the mouse, was flexible but required training.
>What was it?
Doug Engelbart designed a five-key keyboard that would do most of seven-bit
ASCII by accepting chording combinations. His idea was that you'd always
run the keyboard with one hand and the mouse with the other.
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