Re: USB one handed Keyboard

One of the things I appreciate about the ColorForth mailing list is there is
so much room for freely spoken ideas.

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Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 1:04 AM
Subject: Re: [colorforth] USB one handed Keyboard


> Quoting Terry Loveall <[email protected]>:
>
> >
> > Has anyone tried a true 'hacker' style keybozrd input? 6 micro-switches:
> > two for the thumb (one strobe, one mouse), 4-bit encoded ASCII, one byte
> > input for two strobes. Two acceleromters give X-Y on tilt. Mount them on
a 5
> > or 6 inch piece of PVC pipe and mold to fit with Playdough (bake to
set).
> >
> > Regards,
> > Terry Loveall
> >
> > Nick here:
> > Thanks for the idea.  That's 3 keys less than my favorite 9-key keyboard
in
> Forth with octal base and octal-coded ASCII.  And your 2 nibbles of
hex-coded
> ASCII needs one stroke less than my 3-digit octal ASCII. I never
understood why
> people sending DMS text messages don't switch to ASCII hexcodes (which are
a
> simple numerical sequence, just like the alfabet we all learned at school)
> rather than straining to poke them in with those dinky little pencils on
> ever-smaller telefone pads.
>
> Personally, I look forward to a future of tiny keyless computers, that
recognize
> spoken Forth - because Forth is words.  (And Color Forth is coloured
words?  Or
> pitched words as in sing-song languages, like Chinese and Swedish?
> Jeff pointed the way by putting his computer inside his mouse:  so why not
give
> the mouse ears for instructions etc, and reserve its accurate trackball
> facility for drawing diagrams?
>
> Don't get me wrong:  I also think that a two-handed keyboard with plenty
of
> footpedals and a thousand keys would be highly desirable - for musicians.
>
> Regards
>
> Nick
>
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