From: Henry van Eyken <vaneyken@sympatico.ca>
I doubt I'll be contributing much new here, but ever since I gave the
Fleabyte course (on 1 - 4 Kb Casio, Sharp, Tandy pocket computers), I've
been dreaming of a silent, convenient input device one can carry on the
person -- which is where personal computers belong.
One could wake up in the middle of the night and jot down an idea without
disturbing anyone.
Way back when, I heard about a throat microphone that creates sound from
silent speech. Imagine a throat microphone to talk to one's computer. Kind
of frees the hands.
Henry
P.S. Timeframe of that device: ~ 1949 - 50.
Eric Armstrong wrote:
> From: Eric Armstrong <eric.armstrong@eng.sun.com>
>
> Thanks for the report. I'm interested in devices like this.
>
> How is it for doing ctrl+key and alt+key sequences?
> >From your description, it seems that the device would be
> best for doing letter-commands in conjunction with the
> mouse, and small edits where the amount of text is very
> limited.
>
> That can be A-ok for a lot of work. For example, browsing
> emails. When authoring a response, though, it would seem
> to make sense to grab the keyboard.
>
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