Are there any keyboards with the Chinese Mingkwai typewriter layout?:https://youtu.be/-IhuFgiWNS4?
>>107012704not about what you posted but still about technology, but ive been thinking of devices like this one and the script your language uses asian countries had the printing press before european ones, the difference is that european languages can use the press much more easily. this is just a thought ive had for years and have never shared it like and subscribe to read more blogposts
>>107012704I don't think It'd be difficult to build one
>>107012704Is this real?
>>107012704>Lin called his typewriter design "MingKwai", derived from the characters 明 (míng) and 快 (kuài), meaning 'clear' and 'quick' respectively.[16]>Lin had a prototype machine custom built by the Carl E. Krum Company, a small engineering-design consulting firm with an office in New York City. That multilingual typewriter was the size of a conventional office typewriter of the 1940s. It measured 36 cm × 46 cm × 23 cm (14.2 in × 18.1 in × 9.1 in). The typefaces fit on a drum. A "magic eye" was mounted in the center of the keyboard which magnifies and allows the typist to review a selected character.[17] Characters are selected by pressing two keys to choose a desired character, which is arranged according to the system Lin devised for his Chinese-language dictionary, which lexicographically orders characters using thirty geometric shapes or strokes as tokens, akin to letters in an alphabet. This system broke with the long-standing system of radicals and stroke order as a means of indexing characters. The selected Chinese character appeared in the magic eye for preview,[17] the typist then pressed a "master" key, similar to today's computer function key. The typewriter could create 90,000 distinct characters using either one or two of six character-containing rollers, which in combination has 7,000 full characters and 1,400 character radicals or partial characters.[17]>The Mergenthaler Linotype Company bought the rights for the typewriter from Lin in 1948. The Cold War had begun and the United States and the Soviet Union were racing to research cryptography and machine translation. The United States Air Force acquired the keyboard to study machine translation and disk storage for rapid access to large quantities of information. The Air Force then handed the keyboard to Gilbert W. King, the director of research at IBM. King moved to Itek and authored a seminal scientific paper on machine translation.
>>107012704Just use pinyin, gaijin
>>107014118That keyboard layout is kino, and the only prototype was found this year in some dude's basement
>>107012704This is ridiculous
>>107012704Sucks to speak a shit language I guess.
>>107014193>>107014196With just 72 keys It could type 90000 characters. It's literally doing macro/function keys on steroids
>>107014259It was also a commercial failure and it bankrupted the inventor.
>>107014259>emo tion>emotionkek, thats not how it works at all
>>107014277>>107014118With the existing triple drum design, the guy who made the modern replica managed to even make It work even with qwerty layout and pinyin
>>107012704Typing speed?>5 characters / minute
