From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jan 16 07:09:12 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA21499 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sat, 16 Jan 1999 07:09:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-20.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA21494 for ; Sat, 16 Jan 1999 07:09:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.10 #2) id 101XLU-0003Iw-00; Sat, 16 Jan 1999 15:09:05 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from beavis.uk.radan.com (beavis [193.114.228.122]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id PAA01812; Sat, 16 Jan 1999 15:05:52 GMT Received: from uk.radan.com (rasnt-1) by beavis.uk.radan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA17829; Sat, 16 Jan 99 15:05:48 GMT Message-Id: <36A0A953.F75520FC@uk.radan.com> Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 14:59:31 +0000 From: Mark Ovens X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en-GB Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Tony Frank Cc: Mike Nguyen , jcwells@u.washington.edu, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, wes@softweyr.com Subject: Re: Good keyboards References: <199901160339.OAA16194@mirriwinni.cse.rmit.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Tony Frank wrote: > > Hi, > > > 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. > > Ahh yes... I've got several of these as well, though there are a couple that > have a slightly 'soft' button rather than the strong 'click' style. > > They came with a lot of the PS/2 systems, Model 30 & model 60 from memory.. > > Their newer win95 style keyboards are still alot nicer than many others > that I have used... > I'd agree about the IBM keyboards, except the clicking got on my nerves after a while (I never got to use a 'soft' one). The keyboards that HP _used_ to supply with their PC's were first rate, I would have preferred them to be raked a bit steeper though. For some reason (probably to reduce costs) they have replaced them with a really cheap, crappy thing reminiscent of the old Gateway keyboards. > -- > | Tony Frank | Mobile: +61-412-481-029 | > | | Fax: +61-3-9720-4672 | > | Trainee Support Engineer, Ericsson | Email: tony@pm.cse.rmit.edu.au | > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message -- Trust the computer industry to shorten Year 2000 to Y2K. It was this thinking that caused the problem in the first place. My homepage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, | mailto:marko@uk.radan.com Radan Computational Ltd | http://www.radan.com Bath, England. CAD/CAM solutions | FreeBSD - The Power To Serve for the Sheetmetal Work industry.| http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message