Question on Asian-Language Keyboard

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From: jsavard
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 03:01

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Perhaps about twenty years ago - somewhere around 1986, plus or minus
two years - I remember seeing an announcement that the local University
was getting a special terminal for a library of East Asian books.

Part of the keyboard was illustrated. I distinctly remember that it had
an extra row of keys above the number keys, which was also used for
printable characters.

Since the currently-used Chinese-language input systems use only the
conventional keyboard, I would like to find more information about this
terminal.

I suspect it that the terminal was one that handled such codes as ALA
Extended ASCII and, for Chinese, EACC. In any event, in my attempts at
searching for this sort of thing through Google, I have found nothing
about it. Perhaps someone here might remember the sort of keyboard I am
referring to.

John Savard

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