[Elecraft] For the CW OPS

[Tony Estep]

On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 10:39 PM, Don Wilhelm <w3fpr at embarqmail.com> wrote:

> ...they had to learn the 5 finger "chords"...

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Yeah, back in the 80s Byte Magazine had a cover story titled "QWERTY is
Dead." The cover picture was a keyboard device that looked sort of like a
turtle, with a single button for each finger of both hands. The idea was
that you made simultaneous multiple presses to make the binary equivalent
of Ascii characters.

For example, A is 0x41. Therefore, you'd press 0100 0001 to make the
capital A, 0100 0010 to make B, etc. The guy who wrote the article was
apparently an expert with this gadget and could type 1 zillion wpm (1
zillion octal that is, not decimal) and therefore he argued that the
standard keyboard would soon be replaced by the turtle contraption.

Tony KT0NY


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