Re: Using the Macintosh Interface -- Night and Day

In article <0001HW.C51032BE0015D806B01AD9AF@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@xxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 21:08:40 -0500, Jolly Roger wrote (in article
<jollyroger-9E3E96.21083906102008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):


[responding to my mentioning my late 1960's experience with Douglas
Englebart's workstation]

Neat. One like this?:

<http://www.livinginternet.com/w/wi_engelbart.htm>

The picture shown is I think an earlier version of the workstation. The one I
saw had the operator sit in a chair that could be reclined and swiveled and
which had an attached tray on which the keyboards and mouse sat. The screen
was on a separate stand and stood about two feet in front of the tray.

Maybe more like this:

<http://www.bootstrap.org/chronicle/pix/img0032.jpg>

In the picture shown the chord keyboard is to the left of the regular
keyboard. My recollection, admittedly vague after forty years, is that the
chord keyboard I saw had fewer keys, methinks five, providing 31 combinations
given that one could hold down multiple keys at one time. Again, my fuzzy
recollection is that the commands to the system were entered via the chord
keyboard. I don't recall there being any buttons on the mouse.

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