LetterBox Video Keyboard

Fellow MicroNauts,

Gary Morrison's comment on my video keyboard suggestion:

>First, computer screens are nearly square as opposed to the extremely long
>and narrow, horizontal format of most any keyboard scheme. Can we come up
>with key layouts that make sense on a nearly-square format?

>I have thought of another type of controller than a keyboard (it would
>probably be too difficult to describe in words) but it does have one
>problem in common with this sort of thing: It would be kinda tough to make
>velocity sensitivity detectable.

Letterboxed and Flat screen monitors are already available and I understand
that flexible monitors are a possibility. I suspect that software or laser
detectors might solve the velocity question.

During the past year Moore's Law ( ie. processor speed doubling every 18
months) was trashed as processor speed doubled in approx. 6 months and it
seems probable that Exponential PowerPC chips @ 533Mhz will be available
in Mid 1997. Exponential claims that this chip design is scaleable
to...26Ghz!!!

Let us not be to ethnocentric. India is poised to become a software giant.

Perhaps we are setting our sights to low.

Doren O'Garcia
Los Angeles Mvsevm of the Modern Poodle

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