( Babin has acquired some of Schnabel's keyboard manner, but his playing is of limited insight.

Typically it is depicted as a lunch-box sized object with some combination of microphone, speaker, keyboard and display.

When the PC starts up, the first job for the BIOS is the power-on self-test, which initializes and identifies system devices such as the CPU, RAM, video display card, keyboard and mouse, hard disk drive, optical disc drive and other hardware.

Additionally, in some kernels ( e. g. miscellaneous DOS variants ) is detected only at the time OS tries reading from a keyboard buffer and only if it's the only key sequence in the buffer, while is often translated instantly ( e. g. by INT 1Bh under DOS ).

He is best known for composing more than five hundred one-movement keyboard sonatas.

A typical keyboard layout for Cangjie method, which is based on keyboard layout # US | United States keyboard layout

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Image: Keyboard layout Cangjie. png | A typical keyboard layout for Cangjie method, which is based on United States keyboard layout.

Its interface is mouse-dependent, but supports keyboard shortcuts ( such as ' g ' to get an item ).

A keyset or chorded keyboard ( also called a chorded keyset, chord keyboard or chording keyboard ) is a computer input device that allows the user to enter characters or commands formed by pressing several keys together, like playing a " chord " on a piano.

A secondary advantage is that it can be built into a device ( such as a pocket-sized computer or a bicycle handlebar ) that is too small to contain a normal-sized keyboard.

A chorded keyboard minus the board, typically designed to be used while held in the hand, is called a keyer.

An ergonomic chorded keyboard without the board is known as a keyer.

The first widespread use of a chord keyboard was in the stenotype machine used by court reporters, which was invented in 1868 and is still in use.

There is, however, a GKOS keyboard application available for iPhone since May 8, 2010, for Android since October 3, 2010 and for MeeGo Harmattan since October 27, 2011.

One minimal chordic keyboard example is Edgar Matias ' Half-Qwerty keyboard described in patent circa 1992 that produces the letters of the missing half when the user simultaneously presses the space bar along with the mirror key.

The most common letters do not necessarily require chording as is the case with the GKOS keyboard optimised layouts ( Android app ) where the twelve most frequent characters only require single keys.

Examples include Web accessibility a set of guidelines and two accessible web portals designed for people developing reading skills are peepo. com — try typing a letter with your keyboard for more — and peepo. co. uk with enhanced graphics, unique style controls and improved interactivity ( requires an SVG supported browser ).

All one needed was a keyboard and an inexpensive television set.

Because the original designer had left the company another employee completely redesigned most of the system, ( adding a display snow remover circuit, true 80 / 64 column text mode support, ( with different size letters for TRS-80 and CP / M mode, so that in TRS-80 mode the full screen was also used, not just a 64x16 portion of the 80x25 screen ) with an improved font set ( adding " gray scale " version of the TRS-80 mozaik graphics and many special PETSCII like characters ), and a more flexible and reliable floppy disk controller and keyboard interface plus many other small improvements ), also an enclosure was developed for the main computer system, ( in the form of a 19-inch rack for the Eurocards ) and for two floppy disk drives and the power supply.

At the time, before the pre-eminence of Mozart or Beethoven, and with Johann Sebastian Bach known primarily to connoisseurs of keyboard music, Haydn reached a place in music that set him above all other composers except perhaps George Frideric Handel.

Historically, the baudot and braille keyboards were standardized to some extent, but they are unable to replicate the full character set of a modern keyboard.

In modern Microsoft Windows and Linux operating systems, the keyboard layouts US International and UK International feature dead keys that allow one to type Latin letters with the acute, grave, circumflex, diæresis, tilde, and cedilla found in Western European languages ( specifically, those combinations found in the ISO Latin-1 character set ) directly: "+ e gives ë, ~+ o gives õ, etc.

More flexibility in selecting which strings play is available in harpsichords having more than one keyboard or manual, since each manual can control the plucking of a different set of strings.

A spinet is a harpsichord with the strings set at an angle ( usually about 30 degrees ) to the keyboard.

Optional features for the 3275 and 3277 were the selector-pen or light pen, ASCII rather than EBCDIC character set, an audible alarm, and a keylock for the keyboard.

* Computer keyboard, a set of keys used to input information to a computer

* Musical keyboard, a set of adjacent keys or levers used to play a musical instrument

In the late 1980s, motherboards began to include single ICs ( called Super I / O chips ) capable of supporting a set of low-speed peripherals: keyboard, mouse, floppy disk drive, serial ports, and parallel ports.

Due to a peculiarity of the Alto's keyboard, Mesa's original character set did not include the underscore, so programmers were forced to use CamelCase for compound identifiers --- a practice which was incorporated in PARC's standard programming style.

A musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers or keys on a musical instrument, particularly the piano.

* Musical keyboard, the set of adjacent depressible levers or keys on a musical instrument, particularly the piano

The square piano ( not truly square, but rectangular ) was cross strung at an extremely acute angle above the hammers, with the keyboard set along the long side.

Portable PC computers at the time were still oriented toward DOS, and tended to have the keyboard forward towards the user, with empty space behind it, so this was a surprising innovation and set the standard layout all future notebook computers would follow.

Later in 2003, the 15-inch PowerBooks were redesigned and featured the same aluminum body style as their smaller and larger siblings, and with the same feature set as the 17-inch model ( including the backlit keyboard ).

One outcome of this is that the machine had some keyboard keys and characters that were distinctly British: " Newline " was used instead of " Enter ", " Rubout " instead of " Backspace " or " Delete ", and the character set and keyboard included the Pound symbol, relatively unusual for its day.

This includes the usage of keyboard percussion such as: xylophone, marimba, and bells ; and / or any other color percussion instruments such as: tympani, cymbals, conga, tambourine, triangle, drum set, etc.

Some sets of keyboard variations, such as The Hunt's Up and the imperfectly preserved set on Gypsies ’ Round also seem to be early works.

My Ladye Nevells Booke also contains two monumental Grounds, and sets of keyboard variations of variegated character, notably the huge set on Walsingham and the popular variations on Sellinger's Round, Carman's Whistle and Lord Willoughby's Welcome Home.

A glockenspiel (, glocken: bells and spiel: play ) is a percussion instrument composed of a set of tuned keys arranged in the fashion of the keyboard of a piano.

In 1826 Clementi completed his very large collection of keyboard studies, Gradus ad Parnassum, and set off for Paris with the intention of publishing the third volume of the work simultaneously in Paris, London and Leipzig.