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From: wjc@ho5cad.stars.flab.Fujitsu.JUNET (Bill Carpenter)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: keyboards
Keywords: footswitch
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Date: 21 Jun 88 02:03:21 GMT
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In article <556@ecrcvax.UUCP> johng@ecrcvax.UUCP (John Gregor) writes:

> How about foot pedals?  Namely shift, cntrl, ESC (for EMACS), and return.
> 
> One of these days, when I find a good footswitch, I performing some
> surgery on my terminal.  I'll let the world know what happens...
> 
> Has anybody else tried this???

About 100 years ago, I went so far as to buy  a foot switch from Radio
Shack (I think they were selling them  as some  kind of remote control
for tape recorders or something).   I  had the idea  of wiring up  the
keyboard of my Osborne I so that the footpeddle  would be  the same as
"control".  That was in  the good  old  days when there  wasn't a tiny
computer inside most  keyboards (ie, there were  just contact switches
and even the debouncing was done in the big part of the terminal).

Well, I never got around to it, since it  was just a curiosity anyhow.
I  doubt  that I'd like moving  my  foot among multiple foot switches,
though.  My pinky hops considerably faster than my piggies.

-- Bill Carpenter         att!ho5cad!wjc  or  attmail!bill
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-- Bill Carpenter         att!ho5cad!wjc  or  attmail!bill
   (201-949/c233)-8392    HO 1L-410