Date: Wed, 3 Sep 97 09:28:09 +0200 From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer) To: grog@lemis.COM Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: One-hand Keyboard (Re: Microsoft the GUI King) Message-ID: <9709030728.AA17906@wavehh.hanse.de> References: <199709011547.KAA00888@dyson.iquest.net> <19970902104153.54244@lemis.com>
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>> FWIW, I have seen one-handed keyboards of the sort Engelbart proposed >> advertised in the backs of pooter magazines....they look >> interesting. >How do they work? The German (at that time computer) magazine c't once had an article about such a keyboard, built in Isreal, if I remember correctly. It had a number of "main" keys for your fingers (4 or 5), which had to be pressed in combinations to get normal characters. Modifier keys were normal seperate keys. The tester claimed he could imagine becoming fluent with it in a short time. C't also published a DOS keyboard driver to emulate the same keyboard mapping with the num block on a PS/2 keyboard (where of course the placement of key's is not optimal). C't sends out photocopies of old articles for a nominal fee. I seriously doubt it can make emacs users happy, or users of any syntactically rich programming language, but that's probably a matter of choosing the right mapping and right placement of modifier keys. Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin.Cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ BSD User Group Hamburg/Germany http://www.bsdhh.org/
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