Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!mtunx!whuts!homxb!ho7cad!ho5cad!wjc From: wjc@ho5cad.stars.flab.Fujitsu.JUNET (Bill Carpenter) Newsgroups: comp.editors Subject: Re: keyboards Keywords: footswitch Message-ID:Date: 21 Jun 88 02:03:21 GMT References: <5024@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <1988Jun13.195851.1729@utzoo.uucp> <556@ecrcvax.UUCP> Sender: nuucp@ho7cad.ATT.COM Organization: Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Kawasaki, Japan. Lines: 27 In-reply-to: johng@ecrcvax.UUCP's message of 16 Jun 88 20:22:11 GMT 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 (201-949/c233)-8392 HO 1L-410 -- -- Bill Carpenter att!ho5cad!wjc or attmail!bill (201-949/c233)-8392 HO 1L-410