Re: keyboard (open question at end)

["Sergey I. Panov" <sipan mit edu>]

 Todd Showalter <todd@altsoftware.com> writes:
 
>     I'd like a keyboard with a built-in CPU (maybe one of the Hitachi
> SuperH series) and maybe 4mb of RAM.  Make the keys 32x32 flatscreen
> displays (the big cost of flatscreens is failure rate on the large panels,
> right?), and let *me* program what the keys look like.  That way, if I
> want a gnome foot key, I *program* one.  If I want a "copy" key, I
> *program* one.  If I want a dvorak layout, my keyboard *looks* like
> dvorak, and if I want cyrillic or kanji, I can have them and the keyboard
> shows me what is where.

 Sam Vilain:
> That's the "super duper deluxe" version.  I'd hate to engineer the
> thing though...

I saw such a keyboard more then 10 years ago. It had LCD in each of
the  keys and they were displaying current layout. There should be
some reasons why it did not became popular.

 Sergey