The Microwriter Agenda, with its 5 large key chording sequences for letters sorted out the issue of one handed keyboarding back in the 1980s.
This line carries on with a couple of single-handed keyboards to be found at:
Bellaire Electronics Bellaire Electronics established 1978, British Design Award 1990 for AgendA specialist in turning small and medium scale electectronic projects into hardware... www.bellaire.co.uk/
Called the "CyKey" (afer the late film director, Cy Enfield, who financed the original research way back).
This originally was for a largish box used by the Post Office, and later manifested itself as the Microwriter Agenda in the early 1990s. A lot of us use these now venerable machines - which shows the quality of their construction! - to this day.
I am writing this on a CyKey MK1, mousing with the left hand. Very efficient.
A device like this could be rekeyed to the Microwriter standard, ideally, or the MW pattern adopted for the existing clunky keys.
It is hard to imagine as well thought out a single handed chording sequence, which had a decade of evolution. Trust me, it works fine, takes minutes to learn, and a few days practice to get as fast as handwriting.
Isn't it a Sicilian saying that "revenge is best eaten cold"? After nearly a decade since MS stiffed IBM over OS/2 (and lost us a superior OS even if not one under the morally virtuous GPL) it would be nice to see IBM underwrite the "end of Windows". Even if IBM is another nasty "global corporate". I'm almost minded to say the enemy of my enemy is my friend, but can't quite get it out between clenched teeth (being no supporter of global corporatism). Still, be interesting to see what happens...
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Still exists in a descendent called the CyKey, using the same codes and chording.
Made by one of the original microwriter developers -
www.bellaire.co.uk
Repairs the old Microwriters as well.
The Microwriter Agenda, with its 5 large key chording sequences for letters sorted out the issue of one handed keyboarding back in the 1980s.
...
This line carries on with a couple of single-handed keyboards to be found at:
Bellaire Electronics
Bellaire Electronics established 1978, British Design Award 1990 for AgendA specialist
in turning small and medium scale electectronic projects into hardware
www.bellaire.co.uk/
Called the "CyKey" (afer the late film director, Cy Enfield, who financed the original research way back).
This originally was for a largish box used by the Post Office, and later manifested itself as the Microwriter Agenda in the early 1990s. A lot of us use these now venerable machines - which shows the quality of their construction! - to this day.
I am writing this on a CyKey MK1, mousing with the left hand. Very efficient.
A device like this could be rekeyed to the Microwriter standard, ideally, or the MW pattern adopted for the existing clunky keys.
It is hard to imagine as well thought out a single handed chording sequence, which had a decade of evolution. Trust me, it works fine, takes minutes to learn, and a few days practice to get as fast as handwriting.
Isn't it a Sicilian saying that "revenge is best eaten cold"? After nearly a decade since MS stiffed IBM over OS/2 (and lost us a superior OS even if not one under the morally virtuous GPL) it would be nice to see IBM underwrite the "end of Windows". Even if IBM is another nasty "global corporate". I'm almost minded to say the enemy of my enemy is my friend, but can't quite get it out between clenched teeth (being no supporter of global corporatism). Still, be interesting to see what happens...