Just for your information. In the original thumb-shift keyboard for Japanese input, the backspace key is placed on the key just right of the right pinky on the...
That's not entirely fair. Before computers, the backspace key was hardly used except for double-strike effects like underlines and "bold" text. Typists were...
Ideas about "original" depend on how far back you go. The massively popular Underwood "universal" typewriter dates back to the late 1800s and was in use for...
... Don't know how wide spread it was, but there was a "white-out" that came in sheet form. Small, about the size of a post it note, and had the "white" on one...
William Bagwell
rb211@...
Nov 1, 2005 4:30 pm
2730
Yeah, but I think that stuff came in fairly late in the game. Likewise the correction ribbons that replaced the "red" half of a ribbon with a strip of mylar...
I was thinking about this today. If you broke your arm and still needed to go to school, how would you take notes in a school where bringing a computer is...
(Note: this is a psudo-fantasy, and I am rather a techie..) ... Pocket computer hooked to heads-up display in stylish sunglasses using either a chording...
If the vocal interface worked, this would be cool, but I haven't yet found a good one. Even thought a tape recorder (actually, a tiny digital sound recorder)...
I forgot to add something to the original message. The best one-handed keyboards should be contoured and pretty bulky, but there are keyboards like the FrogPad...
What I wanted to say by "original" is that it is different from the subsequent implementations for PCs. Sorry to have caused unnecessary confusion. I agree...
I've been intrigued by the idea of using Morse code for one-handed text input. Morse operators often send at 25-30 words per minute, and I think the practical...
One of the Google ads that we see so often while reading altkeyboards group emails showed me this <http://half-qwerty.com/>. I'm partly posting this because...
... There's an opensource program called fKeys [1] which is a *very* beta program that will do keyboard mapping by hijacking the IOHIKeyboard driver classes in...
... t114792.html> Haha, I knew it! I always thought it was way over-priced (and stupid ). Kind of like Abercrombie, I suppose. I submitted this story to ...
http://www.maltron.com/ They look like they have some interesting (albiet expensive!) keyboards. Found a comparison (by an admittedly maltron-bias viewpoint):...
I had thought about getting one of these when I was also looking at Kinesis and Typematrix. Kinesis was more popular and less expensive, and there were many on...
For Windows there exist a programm named Autohotkey. You can use a script like the following to get the requested behaviour: ; Many thanks to Chris for helping...
Hi I am working on a dvorak layout but does not work in X11, no altGr symbols appear, i am working a lot to have a working spanish dvorak layout, actualized...
The files are dvorak-plus, I am ding a big effort, plz help with X11 layout. You can send any correction an inconvenients you see in the keyborad layout and...
Hi, everyone! Noobluck, are you trying to adapt the original dvorak to write Spanish? I guess someone already did: http://djelibeibi.unex.es/dvorak/ If someone...
Sorry, dude, I got rid of that keyboard a while ago. I have about half a dozen Model M's, and there just wasn't room for that one in my closet. That keyboard...
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the altkeyboards group. File :...
altkeyboards@yahoogro...
Dec 1, 2005 5:54 am
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Well after much consternation and way too much effort, I have finally got Dvorak working on the pocketpc with the Stowaway Universal Bluetooth keyboard!! I...
Well, after about a year of searching, I have finally located the typewriter I want. The perfect typewriter, as it were. You can type Dvorak with it!! It's a...
Is that a text communicator and multifunctional (calculator, notetaker)? I might be interested and several times had to communicate with deaf/hoh people via...
I've been playing around a bit with the Mepis flavor of Linux and kind of like it. but the Dvorak keyboard is working really wierd and no one seems to know...
Access Systems
accessys@...
Dec 5, 2005 1:56 pm
2755
... I'm not, particularly because I don't use it. But I have a few (I hope) useful comments: 1) Your message isn't related to the one you replied to (I can't...
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