One handed UNIX

[Blair P. Houghton]

In article <26495 at adm.brl.mil> hugh_davies.wgc1 at rx.xerox.com writes:
>Dan,
>In article <DANJ1.91Mar28132419 at cbnewse.ATT.COM> Dan_Jacobson at ATT.COM
>writes:
>> Hello.  Has anybody got ideas for using mainframe UNIX or computers in
>> general for a disabled person with use of only the right hand?
>Have you come across the "Microwriter"? It's a "keyboard" that has 5 keys, one
>for each finger of one hand (the right one, I think, but that's OK.)
>You make characters by chording the keys, i.e. pressing two or three at once.
>I don't know much more about it, I'm afraid.

It was invented by the same guy who invented the mouse, and
mouse-buttons, and pulldown/popup menus in general.  I
really should remember this, but shoot me I've gone up on
his name and whether he was from Stanford or Berkeley...

I think he died recently, also...

He also did some rudimentary speech-commanded OS stuff.

All of this in '64-'68...at SAIL, I now remember.

				--Blair
				  "Technology is a slow and
				   laborious marketing strategy..."