美国Sino商业机器公司(SBM)新研制的一种计算机键盘也许能帮助中国在信息处理方面进行竞争。中文打字员一般需要花数月时间来学习使用装有2000个按键和5个移位键的中文字符键盘。但是SBM的键盘输人中文只需要81个按键,而且公司声称任何会写中文的人能在两周内学会使用它。这种键盘的输入速度比通常的中文键盘快3～4倍。这种SBM系统可以象钢琴键盘那样操作。正如钢琴家同时弹奏一些琴键就能马上听到一 A newly developed computer keyboard by Sino-US Business Machines Corp. (SBM) may help China compete in information processing. Chinese typists generally spend months learning to use a Chinese character keyboard with 2000 keys and 5 shift keys. But SBM’s keyboard input for Chinese only takes 81 keys, and the company claims that anyone who can write to Chinese learns to use it within two weeks. This keyboard input speed than the normal Chinese keyboard 3 to 4 times faster. This SBM system can operate like a piano keyboard. Just as a pianist plays some keys at once, he can hear one