J. Nayer Hardin Founder, Conductor, Inventor
Computer Underground Railroad Enterprises
Avid Computer User Since 1977
FOR
DISCUSSION &
RESEARCH PURPOSES ONLY
Microsoft La-Z-Boy E-Cliner
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MICROSOFT
AND ME By J. Nayer Hardin
Computer Underground Railroad Enterprises
My
name is J. Nayer Hardin and my professional commitment is to comfortable, safe
computing. I've typed since the 1960's, worked on computers since 1977 and still consider my own
Emancipation Proclamation Day the day IBM announced I could have a computer in
my home. I've been a home computer user since 1984.
The
purpose of this page is not to make Microsoft a villain. They are
not. I'm simply questioning why NIOSH did a report on their ergonomic
keyboards which only support wrists and still, more than a dozen years later, still refuse to test CompUrest.
I
love Microsoft. I've
trained over 3,000 people how to use Microsoft programs and I've enjoyed great
Microsoft programs and was given by them ten copies of Microsoft Office '97
which I distributed to small businesses I helped computerize. This site is from
FrontPage
2000.
When I look at
their e-cliner, it seems to me that they even announced that an idea Bernie
Hirschenson and I patented, CompUrest, is their idea. I guess they thought
they starved us out of the market and feel safe taking credit for our ideas.
Computer
Keyboard Stand
CompUrest
(
U.S.
Patent No 5,188,321)
is a patented keyboard stand that healed my computer injuries within 30 days and
kept my computer injuries away for more than ten years. CompUrest simply supplies support where there is stress during
computer use by fully and comfortably supporting forearms while lowering the
keyboard. It's based on the simple, logical principle of if you
provide support where there is stress, you reduce the stress. Repetitive
support reduces repetitive stress.
The
CompUrest patent was granted in 1993. Microsoft didn't want to talk with
Bernie and I about CompUrest because they were coming out with their own
product, which turned out to be alternative keyboards which don't help,
according to the government. http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/ergopage.html NIOSH
wouldn't test CompUrest. They tested Microsoft's alternative keyboards. OSHA said they were not
interested in the solution, only in documenting the problem. They made
their money through fines.
We
were blocked from the marketplace for years for a number of reasons. We
financed the research and development from our own resources. Then, we
couldn't even raise investment money because everyone knew there was no way we
could compete with Microsoft.
Based on results, they were right.
Microsoft
and La-Z-Boy announced in January, 2001 "their" new idea - the ‘E-Cliner
Explorer that has a CompUrest in it and resembles the original CompUcube concept
drawings.For comparison links to
Microsoft's new ‘E-Cliner and CompUrest, go to
http://www.compurest.com/elccomp.htm
for the
relevant links.
I
recently rechecked the links from both Microsoft and La-Z-Boy and the pages have
been taken down.
Floppy Disk
Envelope Form
Microsoft
has not been wanting to talk with me since I co-created with my friend Peter
Segal an envelope for a floppy disk that displayed the disk's directory, code
named FloppyLope, in the mid to late 80's.
FloppyLope
is a disk inventory management system
that prints out the disk's directory on an unfolded floppy disk
envelope. Then, by folding the envelope around the disk, the disk's
directory is displayed. I didn't have enough money to get my name on the
patent, but I got an assignment for 50% and my parents now own the patent for
the floppy disk directory envelope.
I
assume that Microsoft wouldn't talk with me about FloppyLope, based on results,
because they were planning to eliminate the easy printing of a directory, a
simple service provided in DOS (dir>prn ), from their Window's function.("Have some of your existing programs been disabled by a Microsoft
product?"
ProComp
Website)
For
verification, go to Windows Explorer, where you find the directory of the a
drive.Notice you can't print a
directory up to at least Windows '98, Since early copies were not
available to write in how to print a directory until it went retail, the market
was lost. By the time a new program was written, a new version of Windows
was out.
The
training is the only one Microsoft actually helped me out with, bless their
hearts. In the early to
mid 90's I wrote a training curriculum on how to use a computer and trained over
3,000 people in Harlem and posted
my training notes at
http://www.geocities.com/computerjoint.
[The updated notes are posted at
www.computerhealth.org .]I even took
small groups shopping for computers and programs at CompUSA, The Wiz and Radio
Shack. .
In
the late 90's (Dec. '97) someone from Microsoft spoke with Chef Ashbell of
Foodstop.com,
('the best byte of food on the net') at the time a Harlem based Internet
company, and gave me 10 copies of Office '97.
Chef Ashbell is currently getting rave reviews for his Soul Food restaurant in
London.
The
training was also covered by a couple of local Harlem cable television programs
aired on Manhattan Cable, most notably, The Winston Gilchrist Show.
During
that time, I was blessed to have learned much more than I taught and enriched in
spirit a million times more than the mere computer information I was conveying.
The experience was a blessing of being a teacher to souls greater than mine.
In
Summary
I
have been a fan of Microsoft's since I first touched Windows back in the
80's. Windows made me give up being a "DOS Nun" with joy.
Excel was the first program that made me want to let go of my Lotus 123
training. I evolved from WordStar to WordPerfect to Word and never went
back. I've used Microsoft programs to train many people I love. My
friend Neil London, of
www.ictv.com who hosts the
sites, got me my first e-mail address from them,
cureworks@hotmail.com.
I still use that address.
We're
pressing ahead with the CompUrest, available exclusively on the Internet at
http://www.compurest.com
. Thanks to the recent Anti-trust decision finding Microsoft
controlling the market, at least I know it's not all me or the people I work
with.
Microsoft
is big, but, when it comes to ergonomics, we have better ideas. I've been
able to replace my computer illness with computer health by implementing this
effective repetitive stress injury and carpal tunnel solution of remove the
stress at cause for the injury by using CompUrest's effective solution.
I
pray that one day Bill Gates and company can engage in an honest dialogue with
me about ergonomics, even though I am not the type of person they are accustomed to dealing
with.
