jel@digi-g.UUCP (John Lind) (02/01/84)
I am looking for information about one-handed keyboards of the type called chording keyboards where information is enoded by simultaneous depression of a combination of keyswitches. I remember an article some number of years ago on a unit called a "write-hander" but have been unable to dig up anything after extensive searches through exhaustive indices. I am also interested in the use of such keyboard by either hand by providing a thumb strobe on each side of the finger switches. In such a configuration, is it necesary to reverse the order of the finger switches, or leave them the same for both hands? Tnx -- John Lind DigiGraphic Systems Corporation, Minnetonka MN
phipps@fortune.UUCP (Clay Phipps) (02/18/84)
I have in front of me the following paper:
[Rochester &al. 78b]
Nathaniel Rochester, Frank C. Bequaert, Elmer M. Sharp:
"The Chord Keyboard",
IEEE *Computer*, vol. 11, num. 12, December 1978, p. 57 .. 63.
This paper contains a bibliography with the following citations
(among others):
[Rochester &al. 78a]
N. Rochester, F. C. Bequaert, E. M. Sharp:
"Chord Keyboard Architecture",
IBM Poughkeepsie Laboratory Tech. Report, (to be issued);
available from the authors at
IBM Cambridge Scientific Center,
545 Technology Square, Cambridge, MA 02139.
[Bequaert & Rochester 78a]
F. C. Bequaert, N. Rochester:
"One-handed Keyboard and Its Control Means",
US Patent 4,042,777, issued Aug 16, 1977.
[Bequaert & Rochester 78b]
F. C. Bequaert, N. Rochester:
"Teaching Typing on a Chord Keyboard",
IBM Poughkeepsie Laboratory Tech. Report TR 00.2918, Dec. 26, 1977;
available from the authors at
IBM Cambridge Scientific Center,
545 Technology Square, Cambridge, MA 02139.
[Lockhead & Klemmer 59]
G. R. Lockhead, E. T. Klemmer:
"An Evaluation of an 8-key Word-Writing Typewriter",
IBM Research Report RC-160, Nov. 1959,
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY.
All you wanted to know but were afraid to cite ?
At least a few years ago, IBM tech reports were free for the asking
(phone call or short note).
-- Clay Phipps
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