At age 37, Chu Bong-foo first got involved in research into Chinese indexing systems, and at age 42 he had his first contact with computers, and spent a month studying programming, with the purpose of applying his previously published "form and meaning" character look-up method to computerized characters. As a result, he created the ChangJie character input method.
三十七歲的朱邦復，開始投入中文檢索系統的研究，四十二歲第一次接觸電腦，花了一個月學習寫程式，將先前發表的「形意檢字法」與電腦字形結合，結果創出倉頡輸入法。