Fascinating read as always Ken.
It seems that the concept of a “Chorded Keyboard” from Douglas then spawned several relatively successful successors later on:
Growing up in the Netherlands in the 80s it was hard to not be aware of the “Velotype”: it had more keys and supposedly made it easier to learn the “chords”.
Your reference to the book Nerds 2.0.1 is great, the book is a companion to the excelent PBS 3-part series from 1998
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorded_keyboard
Growing up in the Netherlands in the 80s it was hard to not be aware of the “Velotype”: it had more keys and supposedly made it easier to learn the “chords”.
Your reference to the book Nerds 2.0.1 is great, the book is a companion to the excelent PBS 3-part series from 1998
https://archive.org/details/movies?tab=collection&query=Nerd...