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From: dave@rocksvax.UUCP (Dave Sewhuk)
Newsgroups: net.cog-eng
Subject: Re: Japanese Human Factors?
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Date: Thu, 3-Nov-83 16:08:54 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov  3 16:08:54 1983
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I have seen a Japanese Ink Jet word processing station.  It consists of
about 2500 keys and has a CRT display.  They did an amazing good job using
24x24 pixel fonts.  The keyboard is not like what you think, it is an
elastimer sheet with each "key" consisting of a 0.1" sq characters.  You hit
the characters/symbols with a stylus.  I am told that the keyboard is layed
out phonetically.  The whole US style alphabet is 1 row long.  This includes
upper/lower case + numbers and some extra symbols in alphabetic order.

The disk system was in a style of "pick a function" hit the "execute function".
Files/documents are stored/retrieved like that and catalogs are displayed like
that.  The "menu" were larger "keys" on the keyboard located on one side of
the keyboard.   By trial and error I was able to figure out things, even
though I do not understand Japanese, we had the training manual but never
had it translated.

All in all I thought it was layed out nicely, placed to put your work, the 
stylus thing, extra font packs, etc....

-- 
Dave

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