On Thursday 27 September 2007, Kenneth Burgener wrote: > Nicholas Leippe wrote: > > For the past 8 years, I have used a Kinesis keyboard. It does the > > keymapping for me, so I get the Dvorak layout even when in the bios. > > Which Kinesis keyboard did you get? I took at look at the Maxim > keyboard [1] which has the ergonomic layout, but I do not see anything > about keymapping for Dvorak. Also the keyboard appears to run $139 now > instead of $200 (if this is the keyboard you use).
I have two: "The Classic" and "The Essential". (Which I think are the same). There were three versions of them--the base with no memory (thus not programmable), and the upper two versions just had a different amount of memory. I got the base model and bought the $2.00 serial eprom and stuck it in myself--all I needed for the programmable remapping to work. I got my first one at a flea market for $5 (what a steal! I got lucky.) and bought the second off of ebay for $100, several years ago. They both look like the first white keyboard on a google image search for "kinesis". The "Maxim" looks quite a bit different--that's the one that's split down the middle. The one I have, IMO, is nicer, as it optimally reduces distance travelled since the keys are as close together as you can get. I can tell, because when I go back to a regular keyboard I usually underreach a bit at first. Nick /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
