Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site qubix.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!sun!qubix!msc From: msc@qubix.UUCP (Mark Callow) Newsgroups: net.works Subject: Re: Microwriter Chord Keyboard Message-ID: <859@qubix.UUCP> Date: Sun, 19-Feb-84 20:12:08 EST Article-I.D.: qubix.859 Posted: Sun Feb 19 20:12:08 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 20-Feb-84 02:21:17 EST References: <16491@sri-arpa.UUCP> <448@sun.uucp> Organization: Qubix Graphic Systems, Saratoga, CA Lines: 17 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. -- From the Tardis of Mark Callow msc@qubix.UUCP, decwrl!qubix!msc@Berkeley.ARPA ...{decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!decwrl!qubix!msc, ...{ittvax,amd70}!qubix!msc