Re: Custom Keyboards
"Chuck Esterbrook" <[email protected]>
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Hmmm, well I'm more interested in the logistics of getting the physical keyboard realized than what the specific design points are. I'm interested in the idea that each of us could have our own ideal design sitting on our desktop. On the other hand, if some of us could converge on the design that might reduce cost. Are there conferences for this sort of thing? (Custom hardware/manufacturing.) In any case, what voice options were you thinking of? I've done conference calls for the companies are telecommute/contract for and they've always mentioned that the calls were not cheap. -Chuck On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 7:17 PM, Thomas Levine <[email protected]> wrote: > This is giving me an idea. It would be really cool if we all spent a few > hours discussing our ideas for the perfect keyboard over some voice > protocal, probably telephone. We get into discussions like this on the > mailing list from time to time, but they'd get much farther if we could > talk. I don't know what would come out of this, but it would probably lead > to the question you're asking. > > On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 9:44 PM, Chuck Esterbrook > <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > --- In [email protected] <altkeyboards%40yahoogroups.com>, > >> "Giles Orr" <gilesorr@...> wrote: >> > My idea of the perfect keyboard would be the Model M15 (the Model M >> > with the ability to split) with straight keyboard rows and the Dvorak >> > layout. And perhaps Kinesis scooping. I just said it was my idea of >> > the perfect keyboard - I didn't say it was likely. >> >> I've been meaning to post about custom keyboards for awhile now and >> Giles thoughts above are the perfect segue. >> >> Many of us have our own idea of the perfect keyboard. Given one's own >> specs, what would it take to get it made? Can such a task be >> outsourced to one company? How much would it cost? Is there a minimum >> volume? Where would one even start? >> >> I imagine the answers might vary as a function of the specs and yet >> there is probably much in common even between different designs. >> >> Any thoughts? >> >> -Chuck >> -- >> Aging: The Disease, The Cure, The Implications >> June 27, 2008 at UCLA >> http://www.mfoundation.org/Aging2008/ >> :: >> http://cobra-language.com/ >> >> > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > >