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From: nsw@cbnewsm.ATT.COM (Neil Weinstock)
Newsgroups: rec.music.synth,comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Cursor keys
Keywords: spam,cursors,duality
Message-ID: <7185@cbnewsm.ATT.COM>
Date: 29 Nov 89 18:21:59 GMT
References: <6080@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
Reply-To: nsw@cbnewsm.ATT.COM (Neil Weinstock)
Organization: The Flying Squid Patrol
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In article <6080@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> rogers@iris.ucdavis.edu (Brewski Rogers) writes:
>
>Recently, I had the opportunity to screw around with an Apple 3 for a few
>hours. Yes, that's "APPLE ]|[" the old sequel to the apple 2 which
>died a pitiful and ignominious death. This computer is from circa 1982,
>a true computing dinosaur. Anyway, it had one feature that I would really
>like to have on my own computer: pressure sensitive cursor keys.
>When editing a file for example, you could push the key normally,
>and scroll slowly through the file, or push the key a little harder,
>and the cursor would double its speed! The cursor keys had a nice feel,
>too. It was easy to select either slow or fast mode. If you pushed
>normally, it felt like a normal key, bt with a bit more force, you
>could feel a slight click, and the cursor went into turbo mode.

Hey, I like it, aftertouch on computer keyboards!  So when are we going to
see velocity sensitive keyboard?  Hit it soft, get lower case.  Hit it harder,
get upper case.  Hit it really hard, get boldface.  The possibitilities are
endless!  Then we can get a pitch bend wheel to control sub/superscripting...

Did the Apple /// keyboard have a weighted piano-action?

;-) ;-) ;-)

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