29 May
1998
29 May
'98
11:13 p.m.
2)It mentioned
a "new input device" that was before the Xerox machine,
to be used alongside the mouse, was flexible but required training.
What was it?
Doug Engelbart designed a five-key keyboard that would do most of seven-bit
ASCII by accepting chording combinations. His idea was that you'd always
run the keyboard with one hand and the mouse with the other. 
29 May
29 May
11:28 p.m.
New subject: Chorded Keyboards (was Re: Insanely Great)
On Sat, 30 May 1998, Hotze wrote:
Check out the Twiddler:
http://www.handykey.com/
I don't like the idea of a handheld keyboard as much as I like the idea of
a chorded keyboard. I often chord my keys by mistake, so it seems natural
to both increase the speed of input and reduce the size of a keyboard by
using chorded key combinations. You, Tim, are one of the few on the list
with neurons still flexible enough to rewire your brain for a new kind of
keyboard, so this would be a good invention for you to foist upon the next
generation of geeks.
-- Doug
Doug Engelbart
designed a five-key keyboard that would do most of seven-bit
ASCII by accepting chording combinations. His idea was that you'd always
run the keyboard with one hand and the mouse with the other.
I recently saw a one-handed keyboard, which looked kinda like a MS
Natural Keyboard, with the right hand sawed off, and the numeric keypad next
to the left. It looked like there were a few extra keys, but you had a key
that you held down, kinda like shift, and it would make the oposite
character (like A for H, S for J, etc.) 
30 May
30 May
1:32 a.m.
Hotze wrote:
Sounds cool, but hard to use, especially in a time when to use a computer,
you needed to type at least 30-50WPM (WAM), and spent enough time on a
computer to compute in your sleep!!! That kind of typing can't be easy to
forget.
I recently saw a one-handed keyboard, which looked kinda like a MS
Natural Keyboard, with the right hand sawed off, and the numeric keypad next
to the left. It looked like there were a few extra keys, but you had a key
that you held down, kinda like shift, and it would make the oposite
character (like A for H, S for J, etc.)
Nope, a chord keyboard is one with spots for the five fingers that
produce codes based on chords (combinations) of fingers pressed down,
frequently with a bit of palm action as well. The ones I've been
looking at are increasingly attractive since they require much less
finger movement than keyboards and my inherited arthritis mostly
hassles me when I'm at the keyboard.
--
Ward Griffiths
They say that politics makes strange bedfellows.
Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else.
Michael Flynn, _Rogue Star_
2)It
mentioned a "new input device" that was before the Xerox machine,
to be used alongside the mouse, was flexible but required training.
What was it?
Doug Engelbart designed a five-key keyboard that would do most of seven-bit
ASCII by accepting chording combinations. His idea was that you'd always
run the keyboard with one hand and the mouse with the other.
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