What are the really unusual or weird computers?

29 Jun 2007

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  Goodbye, I'm not wasting any more breath....

  Hey take care. A bit of advice for you on your
 journey though. You can get sooo much more done if you
 press the keys w/your fingers rather then blow on
 them. You must be worn out!  
I rememebr there being devices (again I think one was described in a 
Circuit Cellar article in Byte) which allowed disabled people who had no 
use of their hands to enter text. Typically the various 'keys' would be 
shownn as an 8*8 matrix, there being an LED fro each row and one for each 
column. The device would, say, scan the columns (lighting each LED in 
turn) until it got a single-switch input from the user. It would then 
scan the rows until it got another input, then it would enter the 
character so selected and go back to scanning the columns.

One possible input device was a pressure switch operated by blowing or 
sucking.

Maybe the OP has to use such a device, in which case all power to him ;-)

-tony

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What are the really unusual or weird computers?