Re: New Standard Keyboard

i thought i might inject my wild opinion. i don't want smaller keyboards, i
want BIGGER ones. with scattered buttons of different colors and textures
and all kinds of useful controllers like dials, switches, sliders. like out
of a sci-fi labaratory. with a versatile or even modular system of funky
input devices, all the "widgets" they invented for Windows systems would
become obsolete. combine this with an enormous screen ( or even several of
different sizes and different functions ) and a system to mount it all up
against the wall, and you could compute standing up and walking around
instead of being tied to a chair, staring at a postage stamp.

i have to say that a simpler keyboard is a step in the right direction
though. because, my keyboard has at least 20 keys that go totally neglected.
it should have a USB hub though so you can daisy chain mice and joysticks.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonah Thomas" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 6:37 AM
Subject: Re: [colorforth] New Standard Keyboard


> Chris Walton wrote:
>
> > I'm becoming very fast with the colorforth layout, but my left wrist
> > doesnt like it, as the article states. I've tried colorforth on both
> > ergonomic and non-ergonomic keyboards and both are not too nice on it
> > (although the ergonomic one is far superior).
>
> > Chuck mentioned on his site that he wants to build a custom colorforth
> > keyboard from scratch someday, and I think this is a great idea. Maybe
> > the standard keyboard is a good start for it, or even the preliminary
> > solution.
>
> If you're going to have a custom keyboard, why not have it in two pieces
> that you strap to your two separate hands?
>
> Then you can bend your wrists wherever you want.
>
> Maybe it would be a patent infringement.
>
> With USB keyboards I can plug in two fullsize keyboards and put them at
> different levels and they work together.  It's a start.
>
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