25 Jan
2023
25 Jan
'23
9:09 p.m.
On Jan 25, 2023, at 3:52 PM, Bill Gunshannon via
cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 1/25/2023 3:22 PM, John-Paul Stewart via cctalk wrote:
A touch typist probably won't notice in the first place. But anyone who isn't
quite that skilled might benefit. An obvious application is when you're dealing with
multiple scripts. Two can be handled with custom keycaps, but more than two would be
problematic.
paul
On 1/25/23 11:53, Steve Lewis via cctalk wrote:
Changing keys would be rather hard on a touch typist, don't you think?
bill And back on the stenography-keyboard like thing
-- what about morphing
keys? If a keyboard had actual screens on the keys, and the keys change
(the actual symbol) based on the context of whatever you're doing. I know
we have macros and reprogrammable keyboards, but morphing the actual symbol
on the keys might be neat.
A keyboard using small 48x48 pixel OLED screens on each
of the keys has
been done. It was many years ago and they were super expensive at the
time. As a result they were not commercially successful.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimus_Maximus_keyboard