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From: dwp@willett.pgh.pa.us (Doug Philips)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: 3-key input?
Message-ID: <1484.UUL1.3#5129@willett.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 8 Aug 90 19:46:33 GMT
References: <10133@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
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In <10133@pt.cs.cmu.edu>, koopman@a.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Philip Koopman) writes:
> I saw Chuck using one with Sh-Boom at Rochester this summer.
> Yes, it *is* a chord keyboard.  Chuck uses it to select one item
> from seven in a menu (no keys pressed means no selection yet).
> ASCII keystrokes (I assume it's ASCII, but maybe not, knowing Chuck),
> are entered by traversing a series of menus.  Also, on ShBoom,
> the menus are not actually displayed, since Chuck has them all
> memorized anyway.

Ok, maybe you could provide a bit more info on what you saw?  I'm confused.
It would seem that entering ascii (or any single character entry scheme)
would require more effort than regular typing.  Did his invisible menus
allow him to enter entire Forth words with one or two "strokes"?
I take it that he was using a custom key device, not just a standard PC or
Workstation type keyboard?  

Thanks in advance,
Doug

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