Re: [unrev-II] Field report: Twiddler chord keyboard

From: Henry van Eyken (vaneyken@sympatico.ca)
Date: Mon Mar 27 2000 - 14:51:20 PST

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    From: Henry van Eyken <vaneyken@sympatico.ca>

    I doubt I'll be contributing much new here, but ever since I gave the
    Fleabyte course (on 1 - 4 Kb Casio, Sharp, Tandy pocket computers), I've
    been dreaming of a silent, convenient input device one can carry on the
    person -- which is where personal computers belong.

    One could wake up in the middle of the night and jot down an idea without
    disturbing anyone.

    Way back when, I heard about a throat microphone that creates sound from
    silent speech. Imagine a throat microphone to talk to one's computer. Kind
    of frees the hands.

    Henry

    P.S. Timeframe of that device: ~ 1949 - 50.

    Eric Armstrong wrote:

    > From: Eric Armstrong <eric.armstrong@eng.sun.com>
    >
    > Thanks for the report. I'm interested in devices like this.
    >
    > How is it for doing ctrl+key and alt+key sequences?
    > >From your description, it seems that the device would be
    > best for doing letter-commands in conjunction with the
    > mouse, and small edits where the amount of text is very
    > limited.
    >
    > That can be A-ok for a lot of work. For example, browsing
    > emails. When authoring a response, though, it would seem
    > to make sense to grab the keyboard.
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