On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 8:24 PM, P.J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > On 4/29/2013 7:45 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: >> >> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 7:33 PM, P.J. Alling <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> I also just "upgraded" my keyboard, and I really hate the new one, but >>> finding a decent keyboard is becoming difficult. Pretty much every one >>> I've >>> seen recently has had Chiclet keys like the MAC, (thanks for nothing >>> Apple), >> >> Whoa. Blame IBM for chiclet keys. Remember the PC-Jr? :-) >> >> >>> My typing is suffering, and it was doing pretty poorly before. >> >> I'm actually okay with the chiclet Mac keyboard I have and I'm pretty >> sensitive to keyboard feel. I think it's one you can actually get used >> to. >> >> -- >> -bmw >> > I don't know if you can count the PC Jr as any kind of influence since the > few who ever bought one denied ever owning one, and it was more expensive > than a number of full featured PC clones available at the time so who'd even > want one.
Yeah, the market spoke quite loudly on that one. But the chiclet keyboard was actually copied fairly widely and they were available for quite a while afterward. I was working in R&D for a clone chips and boards company (an offshoot of LSI Logic circa 1987) and we were sourcing PacRim chiclet keyboards for products and demonstrations. They were ahead of their time in a way. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
