Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ficc!jbush
From: jbush@ficc.uu.net (james bush)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Keyboards - input devices
Summary: Some wild ideas
Message-ID: <2720@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 13 Jan 89 15:37:10 GMT
References: <19626@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>
Organization: Ferranti International Controls
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In article <19626@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>, jmb@beach.cis.ufl.edu (John M Boof) writes:
> ...
> Perhaps we could, as a group, describe the upgraded keyboard, design the
> best compromise of all suggestions, and ask some of the major computer
> companies to listen to what we want.  At least I would like to see what the
> keyboard (if it even would look like a keyboard still) would be like.

(As one jmb to another :-)

I just thought of some wild ideas in "keyboards"

1.  A 8-10 key keyboard, where the hands do not have to leave the 
    keys.  Several possible (and some current!) ways of doing this.
    (eg. combinations of keys or multiple ways of striking.)

2.  Put a shift, control, and possibly alternate on one of the thumbs,
    with the space bar on the other.  Keep only 3 rows of keys.
    Have the rows so that no major shifting of fingers is required.

3.  Get a good voice interface.
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