wmb@MITCH.ENG.SUN.COM (08/10/90)
The version I saw was a custom job, built from a business card and some pieces of metal (I'm not kidding). The keys were labeled RED , GREEN , BLUE and the 7 menu selections were displayed in red, green, blue, cyan, magenta, yellow, and white. You "composed" the color that you wanted to select. I don't remember exactly how he structured the menus to allow easy selection of interesting "objects" (e.g. Forth words, letters, editor lines, whatever). I just remember the basic idea, which is the use of colors as the basic "alphabet". One wonders how a color-blind person would fare with such a device? Mitch
dwp@willett.pgh.pa.us (Doug Philips) (08/14/90)
In <9008101349.AA02812@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, wmb@MITCH.ENG.SUN.COM writes: > One wonders how a color-blind person would fare with such a device? Levels of gray perhaps? Or maybe cross hatch patterns (360 degrees / 3 = lines at 120 degree angles). I doubt that color is all that critical (what do you do on a B/W machine anyway?) -Doug --- Preferred: ( dwp@willett.pgh.pa.us OR ...!{sei,pitt}!willett!dwp ) Daily: ...!{uunet,nfsun}!willett!dwp [last resort: dwp@vega.fac.cs.cmu.edu]