Re: 2 button mouse

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From: Andrew Beattie
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 1988 07:03

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In article <4565@cup.portal.com> Eric_Shockwave-Rider_Larson@cup.portal.com writes:
>
>Actually, the principal of using a small number of keys to
>represent the alphabet (and english language) has been well
>worked out in court stenographer's machines. All you need
>to do is miniaturize one of those, and mount it on a mouse!
>
>
><<<<Eric Larson>>>>    No Quotation!
Anyone remember the Micro writer ? it was a bit bigger than a mouse, with
a button under each finger (and two for the thumb).  It was easy to learn
and with a little, practice, you could easily outstrip a typewriter.  With
some improvement it could be engineered into a typing mouse.

Andrew Beattie
Sphinx, 43-53 Moorbrige Road, Maidenhead, England
mcvax!ukc!reading!riddle!andrew
andrew@sphinx.co.uk
+44 628 75343
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!ukc!reading!onion!riddle!andrew
From: andrew@riddle.UUCP (Andrew Beattie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: 2 button mouse
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Date: 25 Apr 88 07:03:32 GMT
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