Word: keyboards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Richards has said in recent interviews that it is only a hiatus, not a permanent dissolution--gave Richards that opportunity. He assembled a crack band of studio musicians and impressive guests, including veteran studio guitarist Waddy Wachtel, star New Orleans pianist Ivan Neville, funkster bassist Bootsy Collins, Talking Heads keyboard sideman Bernie Worrell and E Street Band vocalist Patti Scialfa. Dubbed the X-Pensive Winos (Richards' comment on their salaries and drinking habits), these players have allowed the star to do things...
Furthermore, HOLLIS has a few problems with its user interface. HOLLIS uses grody IBM terminals which do not have keyboards organized in the manner of the commonly accepted industry standards. Anyone used to an IBM PC or an Apple Macintosh will be surprised to find that the key she expects to delete the previous character does not do so. And there is no on-line help explaining the keyboard (what do these extra keys DO!?). Also, HOLLIS does not take into account what is surely the most common task dial-in users will be performing with the system...
Enabling the disabled involves a variety of modifications, some of them minor, some technological marvels. Scott Luber, whose arm mobility was severely impaired by muscular dystrophy, has worked for three years as an accountant using a miniature computer keyboard and a pair of pencils to reach the keys. People afflicted with cerebral palsy prefer oversize keyboards with hard-to-miss, 2-in.-sq. keys. Quadriplegics, who can move only their heads, are nonetheless able to control a computer by using a mouth-held typing stick or a breath-controlled device called a "sip-and-puff " switch. Blind programmers often learn...
Handicapped computer owners say the machines would be much easier to use if computer makers took their needs into account. One pet peeve: control buttons that must be pressed simultaneously with other keys, causing no end of problems to people whose fingers cannot stretch across a keyboard. Similarly, onscreen visual cues and hand-held pointing devices designed to make computers "user friendly" now threaten to make them inaccessible to the blind...
Thanks to new technology, advocates of the handicapped are now envisioning a world in which the blind will be able to proofread written work, the paralyzed will be able to use computers, and those with impaired motor skills will be able to use a keyboard with ease...