Memorex/Termiflex One-handed terminal?

From: Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com>
Date: Thu Nov 9 09:11:12 2000

> 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 - 09:11:12 GMT