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		clort 64 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: One Handed Keyboard first consumer device I ever saw was the Microwriter, back in the 1980's .. but court stenographers have been using chorded keyboards for a century or more - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwriter - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stenotype

exasperaited 63 days ago [–]

Court stenography keyboards were not originally spelling out letters, though; they worked in shorthand symbols. I guess they can autoexpand that now.

Microwriter devices produced ASCII directly.

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