On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 10:39 PM, Don Wilhelm <[email protected]> wrote:
> ...they had to learn the 5 finger "chords"... ============ Yeah, back in the 80s Byte Magazine had a cover story titled "QWERTY is Dead." The cover picture was a keyboard device that looked sort of like a turtle, with a single button for each finger of both hands. The idea was that you made simultaneous multiple presses to make the binary equivalent of Ascii characters. For example, A is 0x41. Therefore, you'd press 0100 0001 to make the capital A, 0100 0010 to make B, etc. The guy who wrote the article was apparently an expert with this gadget and could type 1 zillion wpm (1 zillion octal that is, not decimal) and therefore he argued that the standard keyboard would soon be replaced by the turtle contraption. Tony KT0NY -- http://www.isb.edu/faculty/facultydir.aspx?ddlFaculty=352 ______________________________________________________________ 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
