Hi Don. I think this stuff is great, and applaud your work, so don’t think of this as a slight (depending on the answer, of course): how practical is this? Again, if the answer is approximately “not at all practical”, that’s fair, but I guess I could also see it fitting somewhere on a spectrum like emacs vs vi, QWERTY vs Dvorak, etc…
I’m doing it for the looks and feels. Making it public and open so others can take a look and feel free. (Ha ha, I got a billion of 'em!) ;)
It does have a distinctive visual look and physical feel. And while it’s not as sleek or ergonomic as the latest Logitech mouse (who gave him an office at their headquarters from 1992 to 2007), it’s pretty great to actually touch and hold -- just to grasp firsthand how far input devices have come.
(Okay, now I’ve got nine hundred ninety-nine million, nine hundred ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred ninety-something of 'em!)
>Logitech celebrates "ONE BILLION MICE SOLD!" making headlines in 2008. See their press release, blog post, and billionth mouse celebration page with links to press kits, fun facts, and timelines. The event coincided with our 40th anniversary celebration of Doug's landmark demo, titled "Engelbart and the Dawn of Interactive Computing". Enjoy the following timeline from Logitech's celebrations.
1.0e+9) Logitech Ships Billionth Mouse. Coincides with Fortieth Anniversary of First Computer Mouse Public:
>"What a wonderful coincidence that the leading mouse manufacturer has announced such a significant milestone in the same month that we celebrate Doug Engelbart's legendary public debut of the computer mouse," said Curt Carlson, president and chief executive officer of SRI International. "Logitech's product innovations support Engelbart's vision of human-computer tools for interactive and collaborative work."
>After that, Engelbart set up the tiny Bootstrap Institute with his daughter Christina, which survives as the Doug Engelbart Institute, providing a useful history of his life and times. From 1992 to 2007, Engelbart was given an office at Logitech's headquarters, before finally returning to SRI some 30 years after he had left it.
I might be misunderstanding, but are you talking solely about the most here? I'm mostly curious about the chorded "keyboard"(?) as an input device - have you spent time with it as a daily driver? How does it compare to a traditional keyboard? I would guess a keyboard would be easier for a beginner, because ~1 key per symbol, and the keycaps are all printed (though I'm sure many of us remember our untrained selves scanning the entire keyboard intently, looking for whatever letter had eluded us) - so chorded input would be more of a learning wall than a learning curve, but once that's achieved... is chorded input ~100% speed of a QWERTY kb, or 10%, or 150%? Is it more or less tiring, physically and mentally? Very interested in your experience.
