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From: msc@qubix.UUCP (Mark Callow)
Newsgroups: net.works
Subject: Re: Microwriter Chord Keyboard
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Date: Sun, 19-Feb-84 20:12:08 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb 19 20:12:08 1984
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This is an interesting device.  I didn't know they were finally
selling them.  I first came across the Microwriter in 1978 when
I was working at Logica in London.  It was a fairly crude device
using an RCA CMOS micro and an LED display.  The keyboard arrangement
was the same as described by John Gilmore.  I too found it easy to
learn.  My biggest complaint was that it could only be used in the
right hand and I'm left-handed.  C'est la vie.  I got used to using it
with my wrong hand and had fun.

For the trivia fans amoung you, the founder of the company making it
was the producer of the film Zulu.


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