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- From: Pauley@vnet.ibm.com (Paul Benson)
- Message-ID: <19920910.121839.394@almaden.ibm.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 15:12:32 EDT
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: Eight key 'cord'? keyboards?
- Organization: IBM Personal Computer Co. - PS/1 Development
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- References: <1992Sep9.203145.1@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz>
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- In <1992Sep9.203145.1@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz> rand_d@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz writes:
- >I have heard about a keyboard that only has eight keys on it and uses
- >combinations of them pushed at once to produce all the letters. I think it
- >might be called a 'cord' keyboard but I'm not sure. Anyway I wrote a little
- >program to emulate it and was wondering if anyone knows the key combinations so
- >I can get the program to work right???
-
- I saw this in a Mac rag the other day and they called it a BAT (don't know
- if that is their name for it or if it is a general term for it). I'm going
- to call them and see if it is mac-specific or if it is just a special ADB
- device. BUT, I doubt your program will work since I believe that characters
- are defined by keys being pressed all at once and not in a special order
- (which would be hard to do on an Apple). You seem to understand that, so
- I'm wondering how you did it for 8 keys (shift, capslock, option, command,
- ????).
-
- Pauley
- GEnie: P.Benson1
-