Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!jarthur!uunet!orca!javelin.sim.es.com!glacier!cpetterb From: cpetterb@glacier.sim.es.com (Cary Petterborg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds Subject: Re: HP-95LX Review Message-ID: Date: 14 May 91 21:39:58 GMT References: <51907@apple.Apple.COM> <1460013@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM> Sender: news@javelin.sim.es.com Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp. Lines: 38 In-Reply-To: cook@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM's message of 1 May 91 19:14:54 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: mickey.sim.es.com In article <1460013@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM> cook@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Steve Cook) writes: > What if...? The 95 or its successor had a simple plug-in port for a > "standard" keyboard which locked out the built-in keyboard. I'm assuming > this feature doesn't already exist (I haven't seen a 95 yet). Airlines > could provide these standard keyboards for passengers like they now do > with headsets (a United Airlines/HP partnership?). Owners could keep a > standard keyboard at home, work, etc. or just carry it separately. I > think a plug-in keyboard feature would make the palmtop more somewhat > more useable (and desireable). I saw a keyboard at SIGCHI that was a one-handed keyboard. It worked pretty well, and was about one third the size of a standard keyboard. I thought this would be a great alternative to the keyboards that are on palmtop computers, especially because you can't always put the palmtop anywhere but in the palm of one of your hands. Since the size was much smaller but the keys were large, it made for easy manipulation by larger hands. The way that is was designed was to map the right handed keys to the same fingers on the left hand. Your brain kind of maps the same fingers to the other hand. It was supposed to allow right hand "mousing" with left hand typing, giving great input bandwidth. Anybody else see it? What did you think? To carry this another step, could a keyboard be created which would allow two handed input with opposite hands on the same keys (at different times)? Comments? Cary -- _______________ Cary Petterborg (801)582-5847 x6446 Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp. Simulation Division SLC, UT 84108 UUCP: ...!uunet!sim.es.com!cpetterb *NET: cpetterb@glacier.sim.es.com _______________ "A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others." -Wizard of Oz