Xerox 860 information processing system keyboard - Goodwill Austin

[XMIT]

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.

[ander]

Cool. Here's a fun computer-history page about the system it came with. Dig the portrait-aspect display.

[Touch_It]

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

[XMIT]

I will, if I win it.

[ander]

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.

[XMIT]

Just ended!

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