Keyboards

[Tyler Aviss]

Just to add my own 2c.

>From what I remember the "exercise" is a lot better for your fingers
than many of the cheaper, low-resistance keyboards. Old springy-style
keys offered a more gradual resistance to typing, so that those who
are used to them "bounce" their fingers off the keys. Many of the more
modern keyboards, in comparison,  have low resistance. This means that
your fingers have more impact at the end, similar to continuously
driving them against a hard surface. Many people I've talked to find
that the springy keyboards cause less wear-and-tear on one's digits
because of this, and they still have a strong following in many circle
(especially the old IBM "clickety-clack" ones). Plus it really sounds
like you're getting a lot done when you go to town on those suckers
*clicketyclicketyclickety* :-)

On Jan 31, 2008 10:03 AM, William O'Higgins Witteman
<william.ohiggins-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 09:18:39AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> >On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 02:12:47AM -0500, William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
> >> I currently own two buckling-spring keyboards, and IBM model M and a
> >> Northgate OmniKey 101.  The OmniKey is currently in need of repair - the
> >> C key works oddly, not registering for several keypresses and then
> >> returning a swath of Cs at once.  The IBM is fine.
> >>
> >> The problem is that I'd really like to get a second, working
> >> buckling-spring 'board for work, but I don't have time to try to fix my
> >> OmniKey.  Does anyone on this list know where I could either get my
> >> OmniKey repaired, or get a buckling-spring 'board in Toronto?  Thanks.
> >
> >Is a "buckling-spring" keyboard one of those stupidly noisy ones that
> >give your fingers extra exercize when you use them?
>
> Yes, those are the ones.  I resent the "stupidly", but I learned to type
> on a manual typewriter, and I want to actually feel like something is
> happening, rather than have to watch the screen the whole time.
>
> >Man those things were annoying.  Slow down my typing a lot and ruing the
> >whole point of having a quiet computer in the first place. :)
>
> The squishy, inaccurate membrane keyboard that you use silently is the
> cause of many errors to me, and who says I have a quiet computer?
> --
>
> yours,
>
> William
>
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