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first consumer device I ever saw was the Microwriter, back in the 1980's .. but court stenographers have been using chorded keyboards for a century or more - h
by clort 11mo ago
first consumer device I ever saw was the Microwriter, back in the 1980's .. but court stenographers have been using chorded keyboards for a century or more
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwriter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwriter
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stenotype https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stenotype
- exasperaited 11mo agoCourt stenography keyboards were not originally spelling out letters, though; they worked in shorthand symbols. I guess they can autoexpand that now. Microwriter devices produced ASCII directly.