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From: ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
Subject: Re: Inputting  8-bit characters
Message-ID: <1010@cresswell.quintus.UUCP>
Date: 24 May 88 07:26:45 GMT
References: <3279@enea.se> <1199@maccs.UUCP>
Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Mountain View, CA
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In article <1199@maccs.UUCP>, gordan@maccs.UUCP (gordan) writes:
> In article <3279@enea.se> sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) writes:
> A chord keyboard is like a piano keyboard, where each character is typed
> by holding down several keys at once.
> This idea is not new at all, but nobody seems particularly anxious to
> market such a device.

Isn't there a gadget called "WriteHand" or something like that?  I remember
it as a hemisphere with seven keys (the thumb had several keys to choose
from) which could be plugged in as a keyboard.

Don't forget, though, that a piano has 88 notes (less than ASCII, a LOT less
than ISO 8859/1) and that learning to play one well takes *years*.