Topic: Tour Keyboards of the World

[toasty0]

http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/keyboards.aspx

Jerry

[E_Look]

You know what was a great keyboard?  The old (now discontinued) Focus FK-2000 plain Jane vanilla keyboard.  Why, the keys clicked with a tactile feedback.  There's supposedly a replacement from them, but I haven't seen it yet.  I shudda gotten two.

[Nemesis]

You know what was a great keyboard? 

The old IBM PC keyboard that you could bludgeon an intruder to death with and then log on to your favourite BBS with while waiting for the police to arrive?  A keyboard with feel and feedback to it.

[Commander Maxillius]

I've got one of those in the garage, if you're talking about the one that made a 50 dB "click/ping" sound at every keystroke.


I had great fun rearranging the keys on those in the labs at my high school

[Nemesis]

I've got one of those in the garage, if you're talking about the one that made a 50 dB "click/ping" sound at every keystroke.

I had great fun rearranging the keys on those in the labs at my high school

Sounds right.  The Klingon keyboard.  Mock my keyboard?  Five wacks against the mockers head - which breakss first?  Not the keyboard.

[E_Look]

Hey, guys, I'm serious!  The Focus FK-2000 keyboards were (are- I'm typing on one right now) plastic and there is an audible, but soft click.  The only one better (I didn't really like those metallic pinging IBM keyboards; they reminded me of my past usage of mainframes, minicomputers, VAXs, etc.) and one of my boys is using it, was the one that originally came with the Leading Edge Model D2 PCs with the Daewoo knockoff of the 80286 chip.  THAT keyboard, whoever made it, was the best, as it was the perfect in-between feel between those toggle switch-like keys of the old IBMs and today's... ugh... soft, squishy, soundless keys.

I don't know... it just feels... unsatisfying to have typed on one of these soft'n'squishy keyboards.

Hey, where's J.Carney?  I need him to copyright this new term of mine, "soft'n'squishy", a new sobriquet.

[Iceman]

I prefer the soft and squisy, cause it won't wake up roommates. Very convenient when one of us was up late, just toss some headphones on, and no worries about type type type all night.


Except when he screams random obsceneties cause he's playing Counter-Strike: Source at 3am.

[E_Look]

Hee hee.

I hear ya:  my wife sometimes either gets awakened or is kept from falling asleep, or so she says, by the sound of my typing, often replying to you sorry mugs on these forums.  I guess they have their utility, those squishies, but I hate the feel of them!

[SkyFlyer]

heh i got the logitech keyboard with the MX 700 mouse package.... it makes a sound

[Nemesis]

Hey, guys, I'm serious! 

So am I.  Those original IBM keyboards put the modern ones to shame.  If I could I would buy a couple made to those standards to replace my current keyboards.