2025-03-23 16:22 UTC
Engelbart's daughter, Christina Engelbart, loaned me a keyset, so I built a USB interface for it and plugged it into my laptop. I had a hard time using the keyset and I'm not surprised it didn't catch on. Supposedly it takes "only" a week to learn, too long for me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpshKBKt_os
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@kenshirriff@oldbytes.space 2025-03-23 16:23
Here's the vintage keyset with my USB interface. I used an Arduino-like microcontroller (the Teensy) to make the keyset act like a standard USB keyboard. To get upper case and special characters, you click mouse buttons at the same time. Too much coordination for me!
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@cameron_talley@mastodon.online 2025-03-23 22:04
@kenshirriff That's fascinating, I didn't realize the keyset was intended to be used for typing. I thought it was more like Modifier keys. How are the letters coded? Also as a musician it would probably really throw me off lol!