Re: tlug: custom keyboard

[Marcus Metzler <mocm@example.com>]

Jim Tittsler writes:
 > On Fri, Jul 24, 1998 at 07:48:47AM +0900, Cliff Miller wrote:
 > > I've been talking with some people who have a special keyboard and
 > > want it to be useable with Linux. It's a PS/2 keyboard and has some
 > > special keys and fairly different physical layout. Their application
 > > runs under X.
 > 
 > I occasionally use my Twiddler (a one-hand chord keyboard,
 > http://www.handykey.com) with Linux.  There are device drivers available in
 > source form that demonstrate taking the serial output from the Twiddler and
 > pumping it into Linux.  The a2x program (originally used to pipe
 > DragonDictate into X device events) is used to connect into X.
 > 
 > An interesting starting point might be:
 > http://www.handykey.com/drivers/twid-linux.tar.gz
This sounds really interesting. I looked at the web site. Is this
twiddler thing easy to handle? Can you get it in Japan or do you have
to order it in the US? The web site doesn`t have secure ordering.

Marcus

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