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From: hollombe@ttidca.TTI.COM (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: comp.std.misc,comp.windows.misc,comp.misc,comp.periphs
Subject: Re: Chord Keyboards
Message-ID: <4902@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Date: 27 Jul 89 01:10:05 GMT
References: <2809@ndsuvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: hollombe@ttidcb.tti.com (The Polymath)
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In article <2809@ndsuvax.UUCP> nukim@ndsuvax.UUCP (kyongsok kim) writes:
}Somebody told me that stenotype machines used by court reporters might have
}a chord keyboard.  Does anyone have some good references for those machines?
}I tried the local library and failed to find any book.
}Any clue will be appreciated.

My father was a court reporter for 40 years.  He tried to teach me
stenotype, but it just didn't take.

Anyway, the answer is "sort of".  You can hit all the keys on a stenotype
at once and they'll all print in one line across the tape.  In practice,
you use chords to form words (short-hand abbreviations, actually).  The
chord keyboards used on computers use chords to generate individual
characters.  Not quite the same thing.

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