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Title: Xerox 860 information processing system keyboard - Goodwill Austin
Post by: XMIT on Fri, 17 July 2015, 06:32:56

Xerox 860 information processing system keyboard
http://www.ebay.com/itm/321809240356

Another Goodwill Austin auction. I won't be sad if I miss this one but I *will* bid on it. All proceeds benefit Austin Goodwill. I've seen the work they do first hand, it is a good cause. Some things matter more than money and keyboards. I can go pick it up in person which lets me bid higher. ;)

Yes, that is a trackpad on the right. A trackpad from 1981.

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Title: Re: Xerox 860 information processing system keyboard
Post by: ander on Fri, 17 July 2015, 20:38:28

Cool. Here's a fun computer-history page (http://www.digibarn.com/collections/systems/xerox860/) about the system it came with. Dig the portrait-aspect display.

Title: Re: Xerox 860 information processing system keyboard - Goodwill Austin
Post by: Touch_It on Sat, 18 July 2015, 14:03:29

Convert it to USB and use it at work.  People will know you are important.

Title: Re: Xerox 860 information processing system keyboard - Goodwill Austin
Post by: XMIT on Sat, 18 July 2015, 16:01:52

I will, if I win it. :)

Title: Re: Xerox 860 information processing system keyboard - Goodwill Austin
Post by: ander on Sun, 19 July 2015, 00:58:18

Of course the touchpad is very early technology. It's actually a type of command device. You have one of your lackeys put their arm under it, and as they feel you move your finger around on the pad, they move a mouse correspondingly. Xerox had the right idea, though.

Title: Re: Xerox 860 information processing system keyboard - Goodwill Austin
Post by: XMIT on Thu, 23 July 2015, 13:39:16

Just ended!

Who got it? Wasn't me. You win some, you lose some.