Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!tymix!doctor!carl From: carl@doctor.Tymnet.COM (Carl Baltrunas) Newsgroups: comp.edu Subject: Re: One-handed keyboards (was Re: Efficient Keyboards) Message-ID: <1293@doctor.Tymnet.COM> Date: 18 Oct 90 02:59:09 GMT References: <1990Oct15.224911.16099@nntp-server.caltech.edu> <2353@trlluna.trl.oz> <442@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> Reply-To: carl@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Carl Baltrunas) Organization: BT Tymnet, San Jose, CA Lines: 17 I have one of the chord keyboards (if you want to call it a keyboard) that was used on the augment system that Doug Engelbart worked on for Tymshare. I got it as it was being thrown out along with a lot of other equipment when the company was bought and then moved by McDonnell Douglas... anyway, it did generate a single character based on what keys were pressed simultaneously. My cube neighbor for 5 years used it and a mouse for programming and other documentation work. He said it was SOOOOOO much better than QWERTY and it was an integrated system. Nothing but praise for it... too I don't have the terminal/interface it used, otherwise I could put it to use myself... maybe I'll do that and make an ADB chord keyboard for the macintosh some day? :) -Carl -- Carl A Baltrunas 408/922-6206|SMTP:carl@doctor.TYMNET.COM,carl@tymix.tymnet.com BT Tymnet (Network Services) |UUCP: ...!{ames,pyramid}!oliveb!tymix!doctor!carl PO Box 49019, MS/C41 |PDP-10 support: 36-bits forever! well, awhile! San Jose, CA 95161-9019 |(insert cute Macintosh quote here)