Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!rutgers!gatech!prism!russ From: russ@prism.gatech.EDU (Russell Shackelford) Newsgroups: comp.edu Subject: Re: One-handed keyboards (was Re: Efficient Keyboards) Message-ID: <15408@hydra.gatech.EDU> Date: 18 Oct 90 06:00:47 GMT References: <1293@doctor.Tymnet.COM> Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology Lines: 18 I believe that the 6-button keyboard designed for character input via "chording" was a co-development with the mouse, i.e., the mouse was originally designed as part of this 2-part system: a mouse in one hand to point, with the other hand handling all the text entry. It dates (I think) from the 60's, developed by somebody who gets credit for neither. As I recall, next entry is *not* all that quick this way, but the learning curve is faster. I don't have present access to the specifics, but I think learning was aided by mneumonics, i.e., certain features of the shape of the character remind one which combinations of fingers to use. russ -- Russell Shackelford The College of Computing Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30332 russ@prism.gatech.edu (404) 834-4759