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Thu Feb 25 09:01:10 1982
MIT's experience with the chord keyboard
>From RWK@SCRC-TENEX@MIT-AI Thu Feb 25 08:58:13 1982
   Date: 23 Feb 1982 1804-PST
   From: Chris Ryland <RYLAND SRI-KL AT>

   The IBM chordboard has been around for a long time.  Some folks at MIT
   have had one on a LISP machine for a while.  Is anyone listening who
   knows more about their experience?

I don't like it at all.  The one MIT has is mechanically incompetent.
The keytops have sharp edges which feel distinctly unpleasant when you
use the "between keys" positions.  It is also not mounted in such a way
as to give your hand any support (not to mention getting the damned
thing to hold still.)  Because of all this obnoxity, I've never bothered
trying to learn to use it.  Is the one at MIT just half-assed (it bears
distinct signs of having been built by IBM, like the finish on the
hardware (IBM-Selectric Red...) and keytops), or are they all
half-assed?


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