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In article <1hcprpINNi38@crcnis1.unl.edu> price@helios.unl.edu (Chad  Price) writes:
>friedman@starbase.trincoll.edu (Mark A. Friedman) writes:
>
>>The Anykey keyboard does not feel solid to me.  I prefer a heavier
>>(metallic) keyboard and find the Anykey to have a cheap plastic feel.
>>Can someone recommend a brand of keyboard or a specific keyboard to
>>look at?

>I've used all sorts of keyboards over the years. My favorites have been (in no
>particular order), Northgate keyboards, older Zenith keyboards (say pre 1990),
>and the keyboard on the Dell I got at work this year. These all have a firm
>bottom to the keystroke, medium key pressure, and no electronic click.

I'd say my favorites are the IBM PS/2 keyboards (about the only thing 
nice I can say about them) and perhaps a Model D keyboard. The Keytronics 
no-click I got with my clone I hated at first but can now tolerate. I 
didn't particularly like the few Northgates I've tried, but I might have 
mellowed out to them after a while...

>The Gateway keyboard (I have a new one at home) is one of my least favorite. It
>reminds me of the Wyse terminal keyboards. My all-time least favorites are the
>VT100 (original) and the Compaq mushy keyboards that came with the compaq
>portables and desktops in the mid-late 80's. I haven't tried a Compaq keyboard
>in a couple of years or so, so they may have changed. The original IBM PC
>keyboard and their current ones are so-so. I prefered the feel of the original
>to the new ones.

I agree about the vt100. That one is physically demanding of the fingers
and actually quite painful to use. The only thing worse I could imagine 
would be a manual typewriter. The only Compaq I've tried was one of the 
old luggables and its keyboard was pretty mushy.

The very worst keyboard I've ever come across, though, was on a Tandon AT.
Mushy wasn't the word. Spineless was more like it. There was a large "palm
rest" on the bottom of the keyboard. The escape key was in the wrong place
(like the original IBM AT). And so on..

(On top of this the entire computer turned a dirty shade of pale yellow 
over time  9-)  )




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