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From: len@csd1.milw.wisc.edu (Leonard P Levine,1045E,5170,9624719)
Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
Subject: Re: Inputting  8-bit characters
Message-ID: <5886@uwmcsd1.UUCP>
Date: 25 May 88 19:36:10 GMT
References: <1010@cresswell.quintus.UUCP>
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From article <1010@cresswell.quintus.UUCP>, by ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe):
> 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.

A chord keyboard is used by the various Braille devices, such as the 
versabraille.  It has a 6 key chord plus a spacebar and in the hands of a 
good brailler is very fast.  Only 36 codes though.

Check with your nearest blind terminal user to see it at work.

len@evax.milw.wisc.edu