[TheForge] BAT keyboard (was: Fall <grin> winter project.)

[Dave Mudge]

Geezzzzz, I missed it.
What the heck happened to Frosty?
dave m

On 9/24/06, Bruce Freeman <freemab222 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Such a keyboard sounds great, but why can't it be
> implemented using a standard keyboard and software.
> At least three keys (shift, ctrl and alt) already can
> be used in combination, and then there are the
> function keys.  To use other keys in combination might
> require delving deeper into the OS, so keystrokes from
> the keyboard are intercepted and reinterpreted.
> Should be feasible.
>
> Andy?
>
> Bruce
> NJ
>
> --- Doug Ayen <ayen at homeport.org> wrote:
>
> > Thus Spake Jerry Frost (frosty at customcpu.com):
> > <snip>
> > > It'll be a few weeks before I'll be worth much as
> > > anything except to keep an easy chair from blowing
> >
> > > away. Even typing is a PITA, I'm used to writing
> > around
> > > 50wpm and am now in one hand hunt and peck. I'll
> > be
> > > mostly lurking because typing is such a pain so
> > please
> > > don't think I'm snubbing anybody, I'm only up to a
> >
> > > little if this at a time.
> > >
> > > Be careful out there will ya?
> > >
> > > Frosty
> >
> >
> > Ow, glad to hear you're on the mend, but that's
> > quite an injury there.
> >
> > If you're going to be one-handed for long, you might
> > look into a
> > one-handed keyboard. I used to work with a network
> > engineer who'd lost
> > use of an arm in a motorcycle accident, he used a
> > "Bat Personal one
> > handed keyboard"
> > http://www.aboutonehandtyping.com/bat.html and
> > scroll
> > down. The site lists other options as well.
> >
> > Good luck.
> >
> > --doug
> >
> >
>