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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: quadibloc on Sun, 10 April 2016, 23:07:20

Title: Transtech Sinoterm Keyboard
Post by: quadibloc on Sun, 10 April 2016, 23:07:20

Would anyone here happen to know anything about the keyboard pictured in this article:

http://www.taiwantoday.tw/ct.asp?xItem=113838&ctNode=2198&mp=9 (http://"http://www.taiwantoday.tw/ct.asp?xItem=113838&ctNode=2198&mp=9")

As the article notes, it was used by the government in Taiwan, and a modified version was used by the Research Library Group for use in cataloging materials in Oriental languages. The keyboard was hooked up to a PDP-11/34 computer.

In addition to the RLG CJK terminal, there was also an OCLC CJK terminal which also may have had a different enlarged keyboard. I'd be interested in more information about either.

Incidentally, I have found U. S. Patent 4,327,421 which has a bit more information about this terminal.

Title: Re: Transtech Sinoterm Keyboard
Post by: mwichary on Fri, 05 October 2018, 19:17:57

If you look up a 1985 paper called “The Input and Output of Chinese and Japanese Characters,” it has more info about it.

Ping me if you have trouble locating it.

Title: Re: Transtech Sinoterm Keyboard
Post by: WilliamBryson on Wed, 17 October 2018, 04:07:03

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