[Gllug] Keyboards

[David Damerell]

On Friday, 5 Sep 2003, Peter Childs wrote:
>- High Use (one is going to be used 24x7x465 at between 4+ keystokes per
>minute all the time. and while it can be replaced we would like to avoid
>doing it too often. 
>- Typest so it needs to feel good and be usable by a trained typest. (I
>don't think they like the soft keys you get on some keyboards.
>- Dirt. My keyboard is already covered in sweet and dirt so it
>- Linux (why else am I asking here) so we don't need all the extra keys 
>although I'm sure we can get them to do somthing!

The IBM PS/2 clickies are still made by a third party; the
"Customizer" keyboards at <http://store.yahoo.com/pckeyboards/ind.html>
are of this design (the "104" adds *ugh* Windows keys, but it comes in
a 101; the "buckling spring" is the classic (noisy) action. 

Many of these keyboards are still useful after over a decade of
sustained use. The action is solid, they are highly robust in hostile
circumstances, and you don't have to have stupid Windows keys. At home
I use nothing else.

-- 
David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?

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