Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site security.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!security!wdr From: wdr@security.UUCP (William D Ricker) Newsgroups: net.works Subject: Re: Keyboards Message-ID: <322@security.UUCP> Date: Fri, 10-Jun-83 17:05:31 EDT Article-I.D.: security.322 Posted: Fri Jun 10 17:05:31 1983 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Jun-83 19:27:24 EDT References: <1807@sri-arpa.UUCP> Organization: MITRE Corp., Bedford MA Lines: 19 The ultimate in keyboards for touch typing is not not mechanically laid out like the QWERTY and DVORAK 3-6 rows of 10-15 keys. It's IBM research's CHORD Keyboard, on which each key has not one dimple or recess for the finger, but one in the center plus one on each edge of the square. Thus you may type a common letter by hitting one key with one finger and a less common one by hitting two adjacent keys with ONE finger. And to type 'The ', one hits three keys with the fingers of one hand (the e, h, and t keys, left to right) while the same hand's thumb depresses a large (return key sized) key (or key pair) which signifies 'right to left, Leading Cap, Trailing Space'. In 20 minutes of training I fell in love with this keyboard. I have missed it since 10 minutes later, when my turn at the demo ended. You note i didn't specify which hand. Since it only requires one hand, you can configure it for either.