From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 11 07:29:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA13880 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 11 Jul 1996 07:29:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scooter.quickweb.com (scooter.quickweb.com [199.212.134.8]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA13845 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 1996 07:29:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (mark@localhost) by scooter.quickweb.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA06531; Thu, 11 Jul 1996 10:30:16 -0400 Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 10:30:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Mark Mayo To: John Fieber cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD keyboard In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 11 Jul 1996, John Fieber wrote: > On Wed, 10 Jul 1996, Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com wrote: [SNIP] > Has anyone tried any of the MS keyboard inspired clones? Micro > Warehouse sells a "Tru-Form" keyboard made by Adesso that look > almost identical except it has a "eraser" mouse between the > keyboard halves. Its about half the price of the MS unit, but a > keyboard is not something I'll buy without trying out first. I > have not found any dealers with display. > I tried the "Tru-Form"keyboard. The ergonomics were quite nice - almost no difference from the Microsoft keyboard. Unfortunately, however, the keys didn't "feel" right... not enough posistive feedback from the key press. I hate mushy keyboards, so I couldn't deal with this thing. I'd still be using a 4 year old IBM model M if they didn't kill my wrists. The Microsoft natural is a good keyboard. My wrists love it and it's a dream for touch typists. I'm happy. Too bad it wasn't IBM that made it though!! Plus, it's quite reasonable price - an old IBM will run you $75, it's only an extra $10-15 for the natural.. -Mark :%t$sig -- Oops, thought I was in vi.. ------------------------------------------- | Mark Mayo mark@quickweb.com | | C-Soft www.quickweb.com | ------------------------------------------- > > -john > > == jfieber@indiana.edu =========================================== > == http://fallout.campusview.indiana.edu/~jfieber ================ > >