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Japanese keyboard
Old Japanese keyboard at the Deutsches Museum. Every key has 12 possible characters. Caption from the museum: "The Japanese "alphabet" is a mixture of Chinese ideograms (Kandji) and the Japanese sillabary derived from them (Katakana, or in its cursive form Hiragana). The Roman letters are used in addition, together with the digits 0 to 9. A keyboard with 216 keys, each representing twelve characters, was developed for data input in Japanese. An additional pad of 12 keys selects one of the twelve possible shift states. Altogether, more than 7000 Japanese characters can be entered. A further 26 keys serve for control purposes."
Japanese keyboard
Old Japanese keyboard at the Deutsches Museum. Every key has 12 possible characters. Caption from the museum: "The Japanese "alphabet" is a mixture of Chinese ideograms (Kandji) and the Japanese sillabary derived from them (Katakana, or in its cursive form Hiragana). The Roman letters are used in addition, together with the digits 0 to 9. A keyboard with 216 keys, each representing twelve characters, was developed for data input in Japanese. An additional pad of 12 keys selects one of the twelve possible shift states. Altogether, more than 7000 Japanese characters can be entered. A further 26 keys serve for control purposes."