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Article #74Re: Chord Keyboards
From: The Polymath
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 1989 01:10
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 1989 01:10
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In article <2809@ndsuvax.UUCP> nukim@ndsuvax.UUCP (kyongsok kim) writes:
}Somebody told me that stenotype machines used by court reporters might have
}a chord keyboard. Does anyone have some good references for those machines?
}I tried the local library and failed to find any book.
}Any clue will be appreciated.
My father was a court reporter for 40 years. He tried to teach me
stenotype, but it just didn't take.
Anyway, the answer is "sort of". You can hit all the keys on a stenotype
at once and they'll all print in one line across the tape. In practice,
you use chords to form words (short-hand abbreviations, actually). The
chord keyboards used on computers use chords to generate individual
characters. Not quite the same thing.
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