Keyboards

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 09:18:38PM -0500, Mike Kallies wrote:
> Everyone's different.  I want one because it doesn't have a wing of
> useless keys hanging 6-7" out the right hand side and it will let me
> touch-type function keys.  Actually, it lets me touch type everything.
> 
> Are we looking at the same keyboard?  have you seen a similiar one in Toronto?

Personally I like the KT800U[123] (for USB) or KT800P[123] (for PS2).
Sane layout, no extra multimedia keys, no wrist rest or anything else in
the way.  Enter key is big, backspace key is not (do people think I make
enough mistakes to need a double sized backspace key?), backslash is
next to backspace where it belongs, not under the enter key or next to
the enter key or some other stupid palce it shouldn't be.  Key pressure
is nice and the darn things never die (I have KT800 keyboards I have
used for about 10 years and they still feel like new).  

Occationally I have to turn it upside down and whack it on the desk a
few times to remove the cookie crumbs, but that's it. :)

1 = beige, 2 = black, 3 = grey in the above models.  Oh and KT =
keytronic.
http://www.keytronicems.com/home/keyboards/keyboards/keyboards.html

Unfortunately the only places I can currently seem to find that carry
them are two places in montreal and an online place based in
mississauga.  I know some toronto stores used to carry them, although
for all I know they still do but just don't advertise them on their
websites.  Hmm, actually a quick check seems to show signa.com has the
PS2 version at least (KT800P2).  I knew I had bought one there before.
I should check if they can get the USB version if I ever need one.  I
used to buy stuff there but over the last few years they are very slow
at removing clearly obsolete parts from their website and their prices
look to be about 6 months out of date so I practically forgot they
exist.

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