From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jan 16 05:29:54 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA14595 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sat, 16 Jan 1999 05:29:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gw.caamora.com.au (jonath5.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.41.237]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA14590 for ; Sat, 16 Jan 1999 05:29:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jon@gw.caamora.com.au) Received: (from jon@localhost) by gw.caamora.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA26913; Sun, 17 Jan 1999 00:31:30 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from jon) Message-ID: <19990117003129.D26744@caamora.com.au> Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 00:31:29 +1100 From: jonathan michaels To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Good keyboards Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Mike Nguyen on Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 03:44:09PM -0600 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD gw.caamora.com.au 2.2.7-RELEASE i386 X-Mood: i'm alive, if it counts Organisation: Caamora, PO Box 144, Rosebery NSW 1445 Australia Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 03:44:09PM -0600, 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). They are made by > Lexmark, I think. 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. and i thought i was the only one left .. well well. just goes to show what a good keyboard can do .. grin. regards jonathan ... keep the faith .. ibm rs6000 were good for someting, the pc/rt keyboard -- =============================================================================== Jonathan Michaels PO Box 144, Rosebery, NSW 1445 Australia =========================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message