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The Keyset
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Tests performed in the early '60s showed that temporary secretarial helpers mastered the keyset in less than two hours no matter what method of training was used. The keyset in everyday use in Doug's lab(click to enlarge) The Screen-Selection Experiments: Display-Selection Techniques for Text Manipulation, William K. English, Douglas C. Engelbart and Melvyn L. Berman, March 1967. This paper describes an experimental study into the relative merits of different CRT display-selection devices as used within a real-time, computer-display, text-manipulation system in use at Stanford Research Institute.
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