8 Nov
2000
8 Nov
'00
11:20 p.m.
On Wed, 08 Nov 2000 15:07:20 -0600 Bill Richman
<bill_r(a)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:
http://www.gifford.co.uk/~coredump/org.htm
(scroll down to the end of the page).
--
John Honniball
Email: John.Honniball(a)uwe.ac.uk
University of the West of England