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The mother of all demos had a chorded keyboard, a mouse,a regular keyboard, and video conferencing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos https
by detourdog 2y ago
The mother of all demos had a chorded keyboard, a mouse,a regular keyboard, and video conferencing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos
- sleepybrett 2y agoI love that piano like chorded keyboard (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorded_keyboard#/media/File:Xerox_Alto_keyset.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorded_keyboard#/media/File:X...) from the alto. I think it's still and interesting UI concept but I think it should/could be adapted to a foot pedal design, chords would be constrained to 2 inputs though unless maybe two of the inuputs were directly side by side then you could expand to three. Organists know what's up ;)
- AlbertCory 2y agoThere was one guy at Xerox (Smokey Wallace, RIP) who loved the keyset and could type like a mad man on it. Everyone else just put it away and ignored it, until MazeWar came along.
- detourdog 2y agoI thought about it a lot and realize the design was swallowed by control key shift combinations.
- AlbertCory 2y agoYou're talking about the keyset. Most Alto users didn't even use theirs until MazeWar came along. Then tech support was flooded with bad keysets that people wanted to start using.