Request for IBM chord keyboard

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Subject: Request for IBM chord keyboard
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Date: Sat, 1-Dec-84 07:18:16 EST
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From: Kirk Kelley
High-powered design and composition work on a computer seem to require rapid
alternating key and mouse input so that one hand is always on the mouse and one
always on the keys.

I've been happy using a simple five piano-key chordboard for the last decade,
but there does not seem to be a market for it as a peripheral.

So maybe it is time to throw away both it and my querty and move up to the 14
key chordboard like the kind developed at IBM Cambridge Scientific Center. I
hear their chord keyboard is comparable in speed to a two handed keyboard.

Anyone know where I can beg borrow or buy one?

-- kirk

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