Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!sunaus.oz!markd From: markd@iti.org (Mark Delany) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Chord keyboards (was Re: Optimal keyboards) Message-ID: Date: 30 Sep 90 00:44:43 GMT References: <142352@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <9130001@hpislx.HP.COM> Sender: news@sunaus.oz Organization: Sun Microsystems - Australia Lines: 16 tcline@hpislx.HP.COM (Ted Cline) writes: >I found the ariticle "The Chord Keyboard", Nathaniel Rochester et al, >in IEEE Computer Magazine, December 1978, p57-63. By any chance, is this electronically available? >I have a copy of the article (STRANGE keyboard!, I like the MicroWriter >(sp?) better). Maybe so if there was a way to make the keyboard completely dumb, and thus useful as an alternative keyboard into an RS232 port. I found it impossible to turn off it's internal WP functions. Also generating Ctrl and ESC type characters are a nightmare which makes it pretty much useless if you're an Emacs user.