Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!usc!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!liuida!prosys!ath From: ath@prosys.se (Anders Thulin) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Optimal keyboards Message-ID: <568@helios.prosys.se> Date: 31 Aug 90 05:30:05 GMT References: <1368@greek.csd.mot.com> <1990Aug29.204351.27673@nmt.edu> <1990Aug30.163436.17881@nmt.edu> Organization: Telesoft AB, Teknikringen 2A, S-583 30 Linkoping, Sweden Lines: 18 In article <1990Aug30.163436.17881@nmt.edu> john@nmt.edu (John Shipman) writes: > >True, but that's a TWO-handed chord keyboard, and it also >does not produce English. It produces a rather cryptic >code that must be re-transcribed later into English. There is also a keyboard called Velotype, invented by a Belgian whose name I have forgotten (Berkelmans?) I believe it is uses special keys for certain syllables. Of course, different languages require different key sets. This type of keyboard is often used by typists 'sublining' dialogues on television. -- Anders Thulin ath@prosys.se {uunet,mcsun}!sunic!prosys!ath Telesoft Europe AB, Teknikringen 2B, S-583 30 Linkoping, Sweden