[NCLUG] Sean's geek travels.

M Butcher mbutcher at aleph-null.tv
Mon Oct 15 18:36:07 MDT 2001


Another keyboard site of interest:
http://www.tifaq.com/keyboards.html

I like the "Data Egg" concept, myself.

The Happy Hacking Keyboard with a Dvorak key set might be a nice compact 
one-hand device.

http://www.pfuca.com/

Matt

On Monday 15 October 2001 01:20, you wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 06:20:40AM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> >Hmm... do you remember a device called the Quinkey?  It had 6 buttons
>
> I've tried the "Twiddler", which has 3 keys for each finger, plus a few
> buttons for the thumb to do things like mouse selection and alt...  It's
> horribly uncomfortable though...  I figure it should be easy enough to do
> letters plus punctuation with the fingers, where each finger has the
> ability to press two buttons.  So, each finger would be up, down, or at
> rest.
>
> With sticky keys or dead keys, it should be pretty easy to get a rather
> rich set of glyphs -- in the neighborhood of 70...  My largest concern is
> making something that's comfortable...
>
> >http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~len/boog/aghist.htm
>
> I'll have to check it out.  Thanks.  Chris over in BLUG mentioned the
> Dvorak single-handed layout, which could be interesting as well.
>
> Sean



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