[Gllug] Keyboard giving up the ghost

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On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Richard Jones moaned:
> On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 01:39:48PM +0100, Joel Bernstein wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 01:23:53PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
>> > Does anyone know a source for proper keyboards any more?  All I can
>> > find now are the super-cheap plastic USB crap that passes for an input
>> > device these days.
>> 
>> Depends what you call "proper". The received wisdom these days is that
>> clicky keyboards promote RSI.[...]
> 
> I actually find that my RSI is more to do with posture and finding
> time to do some exercise.

... and typing style, and the keyboard's shape. Mostly the latter.

My preferred keyboard model has clicky (ultrasensitive!) Cherry
keyswitches, but it's a horribly expensive contoured ergonomic thing
(a Maltron 3D Trackball Series E).

I can type without a break for *ages* with no twinges on the Maltron,
but with ordinary non-ergonomic QWERTY keyboards I have to give up after
fifteen minutes or so with horrible stabbing pains in both hands.  It's
all in the keyboard shape...


Obviously having glasses on the same desk, hell, the same *side of the
room* as the keyboard is verboten. This thing cost 500 quid and I'm not
throwing it away on a glass of mineral water. :)

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