Engelbart's Violin - chorded keyboards
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Engelbart's Violin - chorded keyboards
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#3I stumbled across this website a couple of weeks back, and I have to say this is my new favorite egomaniac.
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#4Imagine a chorded keyboard on the left and right, with the right one (or perhaps both?) doubling as a mouse, with one or two of the keys assigned to mouse function. That's 2^8 to 2^11 different characters you can represent, and you never have to move your hand over to the mouse!
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#5This is why I learned Vim and why I find its theory of interaction superior to other text editors.
Maybe a century down the road we will have vim-customized keyboards. Tangible keyboards will always have a place, I think, because they provide tactile feedback, unlike "pictures under glass" like you get with touch screens.
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#6> This rather unimpressive “hello world” was achieved after around fifteen minutes of practice. What would it have been like if I had been put in front of an Endfield keyboard as a small child, instead of a typewriter monstrosity?
As someone who has played piano since he was eight, I can answer that question: you'd still be unusably slow.
This is the terrible secret of the chorded keyboard: it requires that you press multiple keys at once. Any good pianist can tell you that you can make your hand do high-speed delicate work, all over the keyboard, one note at a time, but dense chords cannot be moved through remotely as quickly, unless you're looking to develop carpal tunnnel. It's a misfeature of the mechanics of the human hand.
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#7> This rather unimpressive “hello world” was achieved after around fifteen minutes of practice. What would it have been like if I had been put in front of an Endfield keyboard as a small child, instead of a typewriter monstrosity? As someone who has played piano since he was eight, I can answer that question: you'd still be unusably slow. This is the terrible secret of the chorded keyboard: it requires that you press…
Piano keys have centimeters of travel distance. Chorded computer keyboards - not necessarily. One can "cheat" by requiring only the faintest movements from the fingers. The Microwriter arguably does this.
Also: have you ever seen a court stenographer at work? You are simply wrong. (At least, with regards to the limits of what human hands are ultimately capable of.)
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#8> This rather unimpressive “hello world” was achieved after around fifteen minutes of practice. What would it have been like if I had been put in front of an Endfield keyboard as a small child, instead of a typewriter monstrosity? As someone who has played piano since he was eight, I can answer that question: you'd still be unusably slow. This is the terrible secret of the chorded keyboard: it requires that you press…
Piano keys have centimeters of travel distance. Chorded computer keyboards - not necessarily. One can "cheat" by requiring only the faintest movements from the fingers. The Microwriter arguably does this. Also: have you ever seen a court stenographer at work? You are simply wrong. (At least, with regards to the limits of what human hands are ultimately capable of.)
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#9Imagine a chorded keyboard on the left and right, with the right one (or perhaps both?) doubling as a mouse, with one or two of the keys assigned to mouse function. That's 2^8 to 2^11 different characters you can represent, and you never have to move your hand over to the mouse!
how many of those chords are you going to learn and remember?
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#10Imagine a chorded keyboard on the left and right, with the right one (or perhaps both?) doubling as a mouse, with one or two of the keys assigned to mouse function. That's 2^8 to 2^11 different characters you can represent, and you never have to move your hand over to the mouse!
how many of those chords are you going to learn and remember?
I think the article's author would argue, all of them, given enough time and necessity.