[cctalk] Re: Computer Museum uses GreaseWeazle to help exonerate Maryland Man

[Paul Koning via cctalk]

> On Jan 25, 2023, at 3:52 PM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk 
> <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
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> On 1/25/2023 3:22 PM, John-Paul Stewart via cctalk wrote:
>> On 1/25/23 11:53, Steve Lewis via cctalk wrote:
>>> 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
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> Changing keys would be rather hard on a touch typist, don't you think?
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> bill

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