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Aucb.532 fa.editor-p utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!C70:editor-people 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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