Re: OT: Whats the best wireless Keyboard

In article <13p5lg5m815472e@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
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krw wrote:
In article <13p5gemc2svf257@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
sci.electronics.design, pcdhSpamMeSenseless@xxxxxxxxxxxx says...
John Smith wrote:
Martin Riddle wrote:

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I should have defined good as in Tactile key feedback. Some are mushy,
such as the ones Dell is now using. Microsoft's are firmer, better
than most.
Too bad Keytronic does not have a good Wireless version.

Cheers


You appreciate the same qualities I do.

I learned to type in high school on a manual typewriter, then, in
college, on an electric. Unfortunately, I can't find a keyboard with
that exact, same decisive "click" those old electrics had. The first
IBM PCs' keyboards did an acceptable job of mimicking them--now I have
gotten used to use a small, dull thud from the keys. :-(

Perhaps you will get a better response ...

Regards,
JS
You can still get the clicky keyboards, made by the same folks that used
to be part of IBM Lexington. They got spun off as part of Lexmark, and
then spun off again as Unicomp:
http://pckeyboards.stores.yahoo.net/keyboards.html

Really? I thought the keyboard manufacturing business was sent to
Scottland, then split off, then sold off to Unicomp. I didn't know
they were still in Lexington.

They are great keyboards though. I'm using one of their USB
"buckling spring" keyboards now. I have a few "Model-M"s but my
laptop didn't like PS/2 keyboards. The Dell I use at work is junk,
though the neighbors likely wouldn't like a keyboard this clicky.


Could easily be. They were spun off a _long_ time ago now, and (for all
I know) may be made in Antarctica by scab penguins. ;)

They were still in Lexington about 8 or so years ago, when I bought the
keyboards I'm still using.

It looks like you're right:

http://pckeyboards.stores.yahoo.net/noname1.html

They do seem to have a Kentucky twist. ;-)

--
Keith
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