The program (called Mindreader) that my friend's son is using is a simple word processor with an early form of predictive text. It was apparently written in the 1980's by an unknown student as part of his thesis and my friend's son has used it ever since then. I have a suspicion that it is compiled …

I am helping a friend set up a simple word processing program called Mindreader that was developed years ago (pre Windows) for disabled users. He has a specialist keyboard that requires keys to be pressed for at least 2 seconds before they register and a further two seconds before they repeat. As …