From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jan 15 14:08:07 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA21594 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 14:08:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from kendra.ne.mediaone.net (kendra.ne.mediaone.net [24.128.94.182]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA21589 for ; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 14:08:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from software@kew.com) Received: from sonata.hh.kew.com (root@sonata-dmz.hh.kew.com [192.168.205.1]) by kendra.ne.mediaone.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA29382; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 17:06:43 -0500 (EST) Received: from kew.com (minerva.hh.kew.com [192.168.203.144]) by sonata.hh.kew.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA00932; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 17:06:41 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <369FBBF0.50F5BE71@kew.com> Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 17:06:41 -0500 From: Drew Derbyshire Organization: Kendra Electronic Wonderworks, Stoneham, MA 02180 (http://www.kew.com) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Nguyen CC: "Jason C. Wells" , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, Wes Peters Subject: Re: Good keyboards References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mike Nguyen wrote: > On 15-Jan-99 Jason C. Wells uttered: > > On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Wes Peters wrote: > > > >>has a very nice keyboard made by NMB, say 95% as good as the Sun Type 5, > > > > I really like very nice tactile reponse of Powerbook keyboards as well as > > the low profile of the keys. Looking for keyboards on the net yileds me > > nothing but cheapo crap. I also tried converting to dvorak but the few > > keyboards I tried had a curve profile so the keys could not be moved. > > > > Who makes good keyboards? Where can I get them? > > My favorite keyboard of all time are the IBM 101-key keyboards (the heavy ones > with the click, not the cheap stuff they give you now). I call them machine gun keyboards because of the noise the tactile feedback makes. I own three compact narrow ones (no numeric keypad, does have normal arrows and page keys) and one wide one. > They are made by Lexmark, I think. No. LexMark sold it off -- I want to say to UNICOMP. Yup, The narrow one I'm typing has IBM logo on top and "UNICOMP model M" on the bottom. See http://www.pckeyboard.com/IBMSales.htm > Still available on RS/6000s, at least. I collect them whenever I can find a > source, I have four, two I use at work, two I use at > home. They're not cheap, though -- they seem to go for around $50 used, > although I managed to snag a couple for free. They also last forever. Electronic Planet here in Boston (Woburn) had a pile of the narrow ones for $15 last fall. All gone now. -- Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com Telephone: 617-279-9812 "... Order the entire DOOM trilogy now! After all, you'll probably end up in Hell anyway eventually. Shouldn't you know your way around before you make the extended visit?" - id Software To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message