Best keyboards you've used ever!

From: der Mouse <mouse_at_Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
Date: Sat Aug 28 16:30:57 2004

> I only don't like 'em [M$ "Natural" keyboards] because I type so much
> on so many different keyboards. If I only had one keyboard I had to
> deal with, it'd be hard to decide between a Model M and a good M$
> natural...

Well, the biggest problem with them for me is that they're peecee-only.
The second-biggest problem is that I don't formally touch-type; in
particular, when typing all-caps, or control characters, my right hand
takes over about ? to 1 key column worth from my left - except the M$
keyboards compel you to use the hand _they_ think you should use for
each key.

Not to mention the various contexts in which I type one-handed (and not
always with the same hand).

> "Funny that ... could make one of the best damn joysticks on the
> planet -- the M$ Force Feedback unit -- and then after all the good
> press quit making it!"

I felt that way about NeXT: they made really neat hardware, with cool
stuff in it, and software that drove me to do a port of X11R4 so I
could overlay their UI with something I could actually stand to use.
So what did they do? They stopped making the _hardware_! Rrrrrgh!

And of course, they then orphaned the hardware and couldn't be bothered
to actually _document_ it. Double rrrrrgh. And there's some cool
stuff in there, too - a DSP, a blitter, a printer interface - that I
don't have a clue how to access. Look at how long it took for NetBSD
to support even the SCSI interface....

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