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Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 17:58:19 -0700
To: Nicholas Wourms <nwourms AT yahoo DOT com>, RPraetorius AT AspenRes DOT Com
From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: Re: Lousy setup program defeats users with disabilites.
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Nicholas,

Douglas Englebart, usually credited as the inventor of the mouse, also 
developed a "chording" keyset. By "chording" is meant the use of 
simultaneous combinations of keys instead of just single keys at a time. 
Thus without moving your fingers from the 4 or 5 keys, they can produce all 
the usual letters, numbers, punctuation, etc. One hand stays on the mouse 
and the other on the chordset. It's more efficient, but people weren't 
enthusiastic about learning the chording (it seems that nowadays, people 
don't even bother learning to touch type!), so the chordset was abandoned 
even though the mouse was retained.

Now, please stop swearing in public, OK?


Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA



At 16:52 2002-06-18, Nicholas Wourms wrote:
>--- Robert Praetorius <RPraetorius AT AspenRes DOT Com> wrote:
> > prefer to use keyboard shortcuts, and will probably continue to do so
> > until an Engelbart-style chordset ships standard with PCs:-)  I do find
>            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>What the $@$! is that!?!?
>
>Cheers,
>Nicholas


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