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Re: keyboards - inspiration brings upon revolution

From: nlange <>
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 21:26:45 -0500 (EST)

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> Not as far as I want;  "Real Life" has been pretty unreal for me here. 
> I just don't understand some peoples' behavior, let's say.  Re-designing
> it a few times got us to a far better (but unimplemented) design.

Now you've got me curious...  Is your new design more software or
hardware?  Feel free to elaborate...

> I think I know how to do that, one way's to just shrug & glue on a thumb
> trackball and use a com port for that trackball <G>  Using an
> accelerometer is pricier but quite do-able, also.  "Metal cage around a
> ball" also would work, cheaper but clumsier.

Yep, glue & trackball was my current plan.
I may try something else if I run into code to emulate a standard mouse.

> >   pressing the Flip thumb key gives:
> >     tab p  o  i  u  y
> >     "'  ;: l  k  j  h
> >     \|  /? .> ,< m  n
> 
> Why flipped that way, I don't understand <G>

The idea is that the finger you expect to use gets used.
It actually works fairly well. 

> Using Asm or C?

So far ASM.  I may go to C if I can set it up quickly. 

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