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[Ajai Khattri]

joshmccormack at travelersdiary.com wrote:

>This looney genius dude did some physical keyboard modding:
>http://tlb.org/keyboardchop.html
>  
>

Any British ex-pats on this list?

Anyone here remember the microwriter one-handed keyboard from the 70s? 
Basically all the symbols were represented by just 5 or 6 keys that you 
pressed in various combinations with one hand (apparently, once you got 
past the learning curve you could type at "stenographer speed"). There 
is a modern day version still available:

<http://www.bellaire.demon.co.uk/newcykey.htm>

Most susequent chorded keyboards were based on similar ideas.


And there was even a PDA based on it on the UK which won a design award 
in 1990:

<http://www.geoff.org.uk/museum/microwriter.htm>
(Note five keys in a paw shape around the regular keyboard)


Then there's wacky modern stuff like this:
<http://www.halfkeyboard.com/>


Mad dogs and Englishman as they say...

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Aj.
Systems Administrator / Developer