the typewriter-keyboard conversion

This little how-to, complete with circuit board layout and lots of photos, describes the conversion of an old Smith-Corona manual typewriter into a computer keyboard. Writes the author, "My wife suffers from repetive stress problems in her fingers and wrists. ... [S]he finds old-fashioned mechanical typewriters much easier on her fingers because they offer gradual resistance rather than the feeling of moving through air then hitting a wall, like most computer keyboards."

http://www.multipledigression.com/type/

Posted by Tom on October 17, 2003