Yes. Don't buy new keyboards. Older keyboards had two features which make
them more attractive to me (and you can get adapters for the cable
connection).

(1) They had a circuit board which was not made out of flimsy plastic. It
was stiff and allowed the manufacturer to use key mechanisms, in which

(2) the keys had a slight "click" to them. This was some sort of tension
spring action which was probably more expensive to make, but would assure
that when you press the keys, your press was interpreted by the keyboard as
either deliberate, or just a slight weight of your resting finger on the key
(unconscious press). In the latter case, no key press signal would be sent
to the computer, since your unconscious key press would not engage the
"click" (the key would not go down all the way). These keyboards made more
noise than modern keyboards. Maybe that's why they went out of style.

There's nothing quite as annoying as placing your hands on the keyboard,
looking off into the distance for a while thinking about what you are going
to write, then, at the very moment when your inspiration blooms and you
catch that fleeting glimpse of an ingeniuos thought, and, as you prepare to
type, you quickly glance at your cursor's position, and see something like
"ddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd".

Or when you're in Speedy and one press of your arrow key make the cursor
jump by two half-steps.

Liudas



From: David W. Fenton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> <RANT>
> I'm gettings sick and tired of all the keyboards ....
>
> Any recommendations for plain-jane keyboards that don't mess with the
> basic 102-key layout and work without problems with Belkin KVM
> switches?
> </RANT>


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