Keyboards

[ffutures]

Keyboards have been much on my mind recently - I thought I was going to have to replace my favourite, used another for a couple of months and found that my speed and accuracy plummeted, and have now managed to get the old one working again.


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[ludditerobot.livejournal.com]

My fave non-IBM keyboard was a Logitech Wireless. I believe I could get 40 feet before it couldn't work. But it died too quick.

A friend who was a grad student loved his IBM keyboards, for this reason: If a disgruntled student came during office hours with a gun, he could deflect the bullet with the keyboard, beat him down with it, and use the extra-long cable to tie him up until the police came.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

40ft is very good - I have a wireless computer on my backup PC, which is mostly used for home cinema stuff, the range is about 15ft and it eats batteries.

The defence scenario sounds pretty plausible, especially with the really early PC keyboards where each key had its own little weighted counterweight hammer to give the true "just like a typewriter" tactile sensation. They weighed a ton!

[ludditerobot.livejournal.com]

That they did.

DasKeyboard is my current holy grail. All black, no fingerpecking allowed. Only touch typing!

But it seems like the PC model for keyboard position indication is dumb. Old Macs had the keyboard "nipples" on the D and K. Your index fingers cover six letters each, so you shouldn't have them be the ones that tell you if you're at home position.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I'm not much of a full-fingered typist - I can get up to a reasonable speed with 2 fingers and thumbs, occasionally get more fingers into gear when I'm at top speed but it never lasts. A heavy keyboard seems to work best.