Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac:17391 comp.editors:206 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!husc6!uwvax!vanvleck!uwmcsd1!ig!agate!ucbvax!decwrl!pyramid!prls!philabs!ttidca!kevin From: kevin@ttidca.TTI.COM (Kevin Carothers) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.editors Subject: Re: keyboards Message-ID: <2755@ttidca.TTI.COM> Date: 21 Jun 88 01:13:40 GMT References: <5024@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <1988Jun13.195851.1729@utzoo.uucp> <556@ecrcvax.UUCP> Reply-To: kevin@ttidcb.tti.com (Kevin Carothers) Organization: Citicorp/TTI, Santa Monica Lines: 37 in article (????) johng@ecrcvax.UUCP (John Gregor): >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??? >> There *IS* (or *was* ?) a company that was producing a foot pedal "ESC" switch (they advertised in "The DEC Professional, and possibly "Hardcopy" magazines). This worked quite well (I'm told) with EDT on PDP-11's, and it was only advertised VT-100 compatible. It actually seems rather more useful to design a footswitch that would make the next character typed a "CTL" character, because this is the key that requires "goofy-handing" most often... Unfortunately, given the async-serial characteristics of most (ie; "non-IBM") type computer terminals, this is, to my understanding, a rather (as we in the computer business say) non-trivial problem. _ , __ ' ) / / ) _/_ / /-< _ , __o ____ / __. __ ____/ /_ _ __ _ / )