One handed UNIX

hugh_davies.wgc1 at rx.xerox.com hugh_davies.wgc1 at rx.xerox.com
Tue Apr 9 20:03:59 AEST 1991


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. I do know they make a pocket
machine that has both a tiny QWERTY and a microwriter keyboard. I got sent some
bumph for it recently, but filed it in the bin, as usual.

Hugh.
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