Below. On Dec 16, 2011, at 3:19 PM, Alan Kay <[email protected]> wrote:
> And what Engelbart was upset about was that the "hands out -- hands together" > style did not survive. The "hands out" had one hand with the 5 finger > keyboard and the other with the mouse and 3 buttons -- this allowed > navigation and all commands and typing to be done really efficiently compared > to today. "Hands together" on the regular keyboard only happened when you had > bulk typing to do. Are you talking about the so-called "chording keyboard?" I had an idea years ago to have a pair of "twiddlers" (the one chording keyboard I'd seen was called a twiddler) which tracked movement of both hands over the desktop, basically giving you two pointing devices and a keyboarding solution at the same time. Now it's all trackpads and touch screens, and my idea seems almost Victorian:) _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
