But seriously: I had a coworker where each finger sat in a little cup, with up/down/left/right switches around the edges. Hit keys by moving finger side-to-side instead of up and down. I don't know the name of the keyboard though!
I once had a job at CBC Radio with VERY OLD manual typewriters. The greens we had to use for shows (three sheets at once, one for the producer, one for the host, and one for the archive) made it impossible to touch type. I had to use my thumbs. I imagine my speed would be about the same on this nightmare contraption.
I definitely need a smaller version with "PgDn", "Down", "Shift", "Ctrl", "Alt", "Space" and "A". Maybe "+/=", "-" and "#" as well. And a pot to smoothly adjust repetition rate. the one with "(" ")" for lispers and "{" "}" for c/java would also probably find it's market niche.
You really don't understand how tactile individuals work. I would love this. Especially for gaming. If I had that for my space simulators and MMORPGs. Would need a keyboard of course. But a board like that to use for various flight toggles without spending thousands of dollars for a specified flight-sim controller would be amazing. I dreamed of having a gaming switch-board like this for 30 years. It wouldn't be fashioned like a keyboard though XD. I am the guy in the office with the loudest possible keyboard.
I used to write programs with toggle switches, but I only had 16 address lines, 8 data lines, and a "Deposit" switch to deal with. Oh, and the address lines would auto-increment for me, so really it was flipping 8 switches and hitting "Deposit". Then set the addr lines to the start of my program, and hit "Run".
I did this up through the end of the 90's, on a *very* high-tech, expensive, and widely known US DoD project...
I used to have the instructions for a boot sequence on a PDP-11 minicomputer memorized. Whenever it crashed, one went to the front panel, keyed in the boot sequence by selecting 16 switches then store. When that was done, run, and the whole thing would come back to life.
This was for a busy peripheral in a university. The few people up to taking the task on (there was a card with instructions) were literally called "wizards". 😂
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How do you handle key up/down event emission?
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the one with "(" ")" for lispers and "{" "}" for c/java would also probably find it's market niche.
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I did this up through the end of the 90's, on a *very* high-tech, expensive, and widely known US DoD project...
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This was for a busy peripheral in a university. The few people up to taking the task on (there was a card with instructions) were literally called "wizards". 😂
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Just very very slowly...
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