RE: [colorforth] New Standard Keyboard

[Frédéric DUBOIS<frederic.dubois@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nintendo sells a new portable game set, replacing the famous Gameboy, called
"DS". It's designed like the old "game&watch" games, featuring two screens.
The new thing is that the bottom screen is a touch screen.
Why not just use a touch screen as a keyboard? The price I guess. Well, this
means you can't sell it for the PC.
I remember the old days when computers were simply a screen and a keyboard (
the computer board was under the key board ). Lets make revive this concept:
A touch screen to display the keyboard or other things, an USB plug to
connect whatever device you need ( mouse, floppy, network adaptator, and why
not a keyboard?! ), and a nice chip to drive them all ( I21? F21? ).

 Amicalement,
  Frédéric


> i thought i might inject my wild opinion. i don't want 
> smaller keyboards, i
> want BIGGER ones. with scattered buttons of different colors 
> and textures
> and all kinds of useful controllers like dials, switches, 
> sliders. like out
> of a sci-fi labaratory. with a versatile or even modular 
> system of funky
> input devices, all the "widgets" they invented for Windows 
> systems would
> become obsolete. combine this with an enormous screen ( or 
> even several of
> different sizes and different functions ) and a system to 
> mount it all up
> against the wall, and you could compute standing up and walking around
> instead of being tied to a chair, staring at a postage stamp.
> 
> i have to say that a simpler keyboard is a step in the right direction
> though. because, my keyboard has at least 20 keys that go 
> totally neglected.
> it should have a USB hub though so you can daisy chain mice 
> and joysticks.
> 

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