The "8 finger keyboard" sounds like some sort of keyboard to key direct ASCII 8 bit character codes. It is reminiscent of a keyboard with fewer buttons (I believe it was 6) that was in trial use at IBM for those people with a handicap (stroke, etc.) that left them unable to handle a standard keyboard with ease. Yes, they had to learn the 5 finger "chords", but after doing so, data entry was not difficult. That was back in the mid to late "80s" - I do not know the outcome of that device. I did know one gentleman (a neighbor with whom I carpooled) who used that device successfully.
73, Don W3FPR On 4/3/2012 11:05 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote: > Years ago, when the Internet was still young, a fellow rode across the USA > on his bicycle equipped with a solar panel charged the battery of an early > "laptop" computer. He blogged (the term hadn't been invented yet, IIRC) and > e-mailed while riding. He did that using an 8-key keyboard operated with the > fingers of each hand squeezing switches mounted on the grips of his > handlebars so he never needed to take his attention off of steering with > both hands. Combinations of squeezes represented every letter on the > keyboard (no Morse involved, sigh). > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
