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- From: dwallach@elmer-fudd.cs.berkeley.edu (Dan Wallach)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: Ergonomic keyboard query??
- Date: 7 Jan 1993 07:26:21 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- In article <RICE.93Jan2141437@HPP.stanford.edu> rice@sumex-aim.Stanford.EDU (James Rice) writes:
- >Does anyone have a pointer to a keyboard for the Mac that has
- >been designed with a mind to preventing/helping with repetitive
- >motion disorders? My wife seems to have damaged herself with
- >typing at the office, but really doesn't want to give up her
- >Mac at home.
-
- Your wife need not give up her computer, although she may want to
- go see a doctor. Anyway, in answer to your question...
-
- Apple announced such a keyboard today at MacWorld. There was apparently
- a big blurb about it in the New York Times (which I intend on buying on
- my way home from work, so I don't have the info handy). Essentially,
- it's split in half, and each side is somewhat adjustable. The cost is
- quite cheap for such devices, around $219, I hear, although you have
- to pay extra for the attach-on palm supports and/or keypad. If somebody
- could come up with a GIF (or whatever) picture of this beast, I'd love
- to have it.
-
- For those who don't follow these things, a number of vendors sell
- 'alternative' keyboards, with prices ranging from around $200 to over
- $1000. Most are around $6-700. Everybody makes a PC version of
- their keyboard. Most vendors are either shipping or working on
- Mac and even Sun versions.
-
- BLATANT PLUG MODE:
-
- I maintain the Typing Injury FAQ, which contains all kinds of useful
- information if you care about this sort of thing. You can grab it,
- and all sorts of informative files, and even GIF pictures of every
- keyboard I've found in any literature, via anonymous FTP from
- soda.berkeley.edu (128.32.149.19) in pub/typing-injury.
-
- The FAQ is posted monthly to a number of newsgroups, among which
- sci.med.occupational has the lowest volume (if you just want to
- watch for useful information in a very-low-noise-except-for-BIFFesque-
- postings-from-dweebs-at-iastate.edu-to-all-newsgroups).
-
- END, BLATANT PLUG MODE.
-
- Hope this was useful,
- --
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