Re: Heavy duty, feels-good keyboard for typist with a vengeance

2010-02-28 Thread Kasey Smith
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:45 PM, PETER WARNER pe...@petermwarner.com wrote:
 Austin Leeds

 Well, I suppose this would be an article better addressed to one of
 the LEM groups for older Macs.

 Thanks for your input,
 FFF

 And you tried to Hijack a thread ;)

 ??? He was the OP...

Oh, whoops! didnt notice that one, sorry lol.

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Re: Heavy duty, feels-good keyboard for typist with a vengeance

2010-02-27 Thread PETER WARNER

Austin Leeds

Well, I suppose this would be an article better addressed to one of
the LEM groups for older Macs.

Thanks for your input,
FFF


And you tried to Hijack a thread ;)


??? He was the OP...

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Re: Heavy duty, feels-good keyboard for typist with a vengeance

2010-02-26 Thread Bruce Johnson


On Feb 25, 2010, at 4:44 PM, James Therrault wrote:




The old Mac II extended keyboards were very good.  But they were of  
course ADB.  I still have a couple of those somewhere...


Look for a Griffin iMate ADB-USB adapter if you want to use one on  
your Mac.


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Re: Heavy duty, feels-good keyboard for typist with a vengeance

2010-02-26 Thread James Therrault


On Feb 26, 2010, at 9:26 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:



On Feb 25, 2010, at 4:44 PM, James Therrault wrote:




The old Mac II extended keyboards were very good.  But they were  
of course ADB.  I still have a couple of those somewhere...


Look for a Griffin iMate ADB-USB adapter if you want to use one on  
your Mac.




Thanks Bruce...  I may just do that.  One for my desktop and the  
other for an old Power Computing 604.  Who knows, I might even look  
for an ol' Quadra 700!


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Re: Heavy duty, feels-good keyboard for typist with a vengeance

2010-02-26 Thread Austin Leeds
Yes, I mentioned Matias' Tactile Pro above. Alas, my funds are a bit
low to be buying a keyboard that nice (I'm really shooting to get an
iPad when they come out).

The Yamaha Clavinovas are probably the best-designed electric
keyboards ever made. The real levers and hammers make me feel like I'm
playing a real piano. As to sound, with the built-in speaker, quality
is OK, but put on headphones or run them through an amp, and there's
no real noticeable difference between a real piano and a Clavinova. I
was a bit surprised when I put headphones on for the first time with
one of these things—I thought they weren't working because the sound
was so balanced, natural, and lifelike. Only after I took them off and
tried playing again did I realize that the sound was coming through
the headphones.

If the AEK and Model M are as close to typing perfection as a
Clavinova is, I'll be in typist heaven.

On Feb 25, 10:15 pm, Kasey Smith kasm...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Austin Leeds

 firepowerforfree...@gmail.com wrote:
   So, my question is, are there any of you out there that use
  keyboards in the caliber of the Apple Extended Keyboard and the IBM
  Model M? How do you like them, and would they be worth carrying around
  (with a USB adapter, of course)?

 Someone just posted this in another 
 thread:http://matias.ca/tactilepro/index.php
 Also, Clarinovas are awesome, our school has one and it sounds so real!

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Re: Heavy duty, feels-good keyboard for typist with a vengeance

2010-02-26 Thread Austin Leeds
I had a somewhat nerdy thought the other day about getting some old
Mac hardware. I have MacTracker, a great little piece of freeware that
contains all the vital stats about almost every piece of Apple
hardware and software ever made, as well as some pictures, and the
startup chime and chimes of death for each. If I were going to look
for something that would be economical to use as a small word
processing desktop, with the possibility of wireless access through
the Ethernet port (WDS with a couple of AirPort Extreme Base
Stations), for printing, what would you recommend?

On Feb 26, 10:05 am, James Therrault jetas...@netzero.com wrote:
 On Feb 26, 2010, at 9:26 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:



  On Feb 25, 2010, at 4:44 PM, James Therrault wrote:

  The old Mac II extended keyboards were very good.  But they were  
  of course ADB.  I still have a couple of those somewhere...

  Look for a Griffin iMate ADB-USB adapter if you want to use one on  
  your Mac.

 Thanks Bruce...  I may just do that.  One for my desktop and the  
 other for an old Power Computing 604.  Who knows, I might even look  
 for an ol' Quadra 700!

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Re: Heavy duty, feels-good keyboard for typist with a vengeance

2010-02-26 Thread Austin Leeds
Well, I suppose this would be an article better addressed to one of
the LEM groups for older Macs.

Thanks for your input,
FFF

On Feb 26, 10:12 am, Austin Leeds firepowerforfree...@gmail.com
wrote:
 I had a somewhat nerdy thought the other day about getting some old
 Mac hardware. I have MacTracker, a great little piece of freeware that
 contains all the vital stats about almost every piece of Apple
 hardware and software ever made, as well as some pictures, and the
 startup chime and chimes of death for each. If I were going to look
 for something that would be economical to use as a small word
 processing desktop, with the possibility of wireless access through
 the Ethernet port (WDS with a couple of AirPort Extreme Base
 Stations), for printing, what would you recommend?

 On Feb 26, 10:05 am, James Therrault jetas...@netzero.com wrote:

  On Feb 26, 2010, at 9:26 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:

   On Feb 25, 2010, at 4:44 PM, James Therrault wrote:

   The old Mac II extended keyboards were very good.  But they were  
   of course ADB.  I still have a couple of those somewhere...

   Look for a Griffin iMate ADB-USB adapter if you want to use one on  
   your Mac.

  Thanks Bruce...  I may just do that.  One for my desktop and the  
  other for an old Power Computing 604.  Who knows, I might even look  
  for an ol' Quadra 700!

  JT

  
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Re: Heavy duty, feels-good keyboard for typist with a vengeance

2010-02-26 Thread Kasey Smith
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Austin Leeds
firepowerforfree...@gmail.com wrote:
 Well, I suppose this would be an article better addressed to one of
 the LEM groups for older Macs.

 Thanks for your input,
 FFF

And you tried to Hijack a thread ;)

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Heavy duty, feels-good keyboard for typist with a vengeance

2010-02-25 Thread Dan Stobbs
I can certainly recommend Lindy USB Mac specific keyboards.  They use
switches rather than a membrane, so they're very positive action (although
not the quietest in the world!) and also have two USB sockets so rodents can
be plugged in.  Don't know if they still make them to this standard: I've
bought all 4 of mine off ebay and they date back to G3 days, and come in
various Mac colours. They work well, and are relatively easy to dismantle
for cleaning purposes.  They have a similar  feel to the classic IBM AT
keyboards that everyone used to love in XT/ 286 days!

Regards, Dan.

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Re: Heavy duty, feels-good keyboard for typist with a vengeance

2010-02-25 Thread Caleb S. Cupples
On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 21:28 -0800, Austin Leeds wrote:
   So, my question is, are there any of you out there that use
 keyboards in the caliber of the Apple Extended Keyboard and the IBM
 Model M? How do you like them, and would they be worth carrying around
 (with a USB adapter, of course)?
 

I have an Extended Keyboard II, a Model M, a Sun Type 5c and a Dell
AT101W that I have on several different machines, but when I need to
carry an external board to class, I always go for the AEKII, because it
is my favorite out of the lot. I'll try and give my benefits and
drawbacks to each (minus the 5c, because you have to build your own
adapters for those.. It speaks TTL RS-232 over what looks like a Mac
serial port(RS-422))

AEKII:
Benefits - Great feel, not /too/ heavy, at only ~4.5 lbs. Very quiet for
a mechanical board. Plus, it has all the Mac keys already. 

Drawbacks - ADB-USB converters are a pain to find, are more expensive
than a Model M with a PS/2 to USB converter.

Model M:
Benefits - Wonderful feel, my favorite out of my collection. Very
substantial build, makes an excellent improvised weapon. Bliss to type
on.

Drawbacks - Very, very heavy. Let me emphasize heavy... It makes my
Lombards or my ThinkPad seem light in comparison. It is also loud. Very
loud, and I've been booted from a class for using it instead of my
built-in keyboard before. Only 101 keys, so no Command key. 

Dell AT101W:
Benefits - Fairly cheap, well-built (not quite as well as the AEKII, but
very close) and uses the Alps switches, like the AEKII. Also fun to type
on. PS/2 to USB converters are cheaper than ADB to USB converters, by a
lot. Available in black, as well as beige. Looks a lot like the AEKII.

Drawbacks - Have to look at Windows keys, keycaps nearly impossible to
remove (like the AEKII), Dell logo. Key lettering can wear pretty badly
on the black ones. 

Keyboards are very subjective, though. Personally, I like the AEKII, but
honestly, if I didn't need an ADB board, I'd get the Dell, because it
looks almost identical, has the same switches and is cheaper to make
work on a modern Mac.

Just my $0.02,
Caleb

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Re: Heavy duty, feels-good keyboard for typist with a vengeance

2010-02-25 Thread Austin Leeds
  Lindy would be great if I lived in the UK. I believe the North
American equivalent would be the Matias Tactile Pro (now in it's third
revision), which is made in Canada and sells for $149. I'm not quite
that obsessed yet.
  The IBM AT keyboard is known as the Model M, and it came in several
revisions, from ancient to fairly modern. The mechanisms in the Model
M are buckled spring keycaps, while the Apple Extended and Extended II
use Alps keycaps, just like the Tactile Pro series. (I just found all
this out last night, but I'm pretty sure I used a Model M or similar
in kindergarten on our old Win 3.1 PCs)
  I'm going to be weighing the Alps vs. the buckled springs, and I'll
see what I come up with. Perhaps I'll look at a trackball while I'm at
it (whoa, I just had a 90's moment).

Thanks for the advice, though.

On Feb 25, 7:43 am, Dan Stobbs autolycus.mercat...@googlemail.com
wrote:
 I can certainly recommend Lindy USB Mac specific keyboards.  They use
 switches rather than a membrane, so they're very positive action (although
 not the quietest in the world!) and also have two USB sockets so rodents can
 be plugged in.  Don't know if they still make them to this standard: I've
 bought all 4 of mine off ebay and they date back to G3 days, and come in
 various Mac colours. They work well, and are relatively easy to dismantle
 for cleaning purposes.  They have a similar  feel to the classic IBM AT
 keyboards that everyone used to love in XT/ 286 days!

 Regards, Dan.

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Re: Heavy duty, feels-good keyboard for typist with a vengeance

2010-02-25 Thread diane

At 6:16 AM -0800 2/25/10, Austin Leeds wrote:


  The IBM AT keyboard is known as the Model M, and it came in several
revisions, from ancient to fairly modern. The mechanisms in the Model



I have one of these in my attic - from 1985. Is there an adapter that 
would work on a modern-day Mac? (it's not a PS/2 version, it's the 
old big round plug).


I am using a Mcally iKey bought back in 2002 on my G4 and it's much 
better than the Apple keyboard but nothing like the old IBM!


Diane

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Re: Heavy duty, feels-good keyboard for typist with a vengeance

2010-02-25 Thread Bruce Johnson


On Feb 25, 2010, at 7:16 AM, Austin Leeds wrote:


 Lindy would be great if I lived in the UK. I believe the North
American equivalent would be the Matias Tactile Pro (now in it's third
revision), which is made in Canada and sells for $149. I'm not quite
that obsessed yet.



Sigh..I miss the late lamented Northgate. I had one of their keyboards  
for my Mac Plus.


Too bad they got sucked into making computers instead of just  
concentrating on their magnificent keyboards, and were sucked into  
bankruptcy a few years later (after, of course, selling the College  
our very first server, this massive  tower (Think back to the early  
90's where My tower is bigger than your tower systems were all the  
rage, about 4.5' tall, 2.5 deep, eleventy zillion drive bays, two or  
three kilowatt power supply :-) with an ENORMOUS, 'we'll NEVER fill  
this up!!' Ten Whole GIGA-byte hard drive, in all it's full height, 5  
1/4, five pounds glory



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Re: Heavy duty, feels-good keyboard for typist with a vengeance

2010-02-25 Thread Austin Leeds
  So, the Extended Keyboard II has the Alps, but is quieter and
lighter than the original and the Model M. That would be nice
(although the Model M might bring up some nostalgic feelings in my
newspaper advisor—she's a middle-aged English instructor who's been
working with computers for awhile). Yeah, I saw the prices on the ADB
to USB… ouch.
  I'm not a big Dell fan… COUGH*cheap*COUGH. But I'm willing to look
at it and see.
  We have crappy keyboards for almost all of our computers here at
home, so I think I might look at getting several different keyboards
(especially the AEK and AEKII). The PowerBook Duo we have is possibly
going to get a floppy here in the near future, so I think I might get
an AEK for its sake.

On Feb 25, 8:01 am, Caleb S. Cupples
calebcupplessocial...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 21:28 -0800, Austin Leeds wrote:
    So, my question is, are there any of you out there that use
  keyboards in the caliber of the Apple Extended Keyboard and the IBM
  Model M? How do you like them, and would they be worth carrying around
  (with a USB adapter, of course)?

 I have an Extended Keyboard II, a Model M, a Sun Type 5c and a Dell
 AT101W that I have on several different machines, but when I need to
 carry an external board to class, I always go for the AEKII, because it
 is my favorite out of the lot. I'll try and give my benefits and
 drawbacks to each (minus the 5c, because you have to build your own
 adapters for those.. It speaks TTL RS-232 over what looks like a Mac
 serial port(RS-422))

 AEKII:
 Benefits - Great feel, not /too/ heavy, at only ~4.5 lbs. Very quiet for
 a mechanical board. Plus, it has all the Mac keys already.

 Drawbacks - ADB-USB converters are a pain to find, are more expensive
 than a Model M with a PS/2 to USB converter.

 Model M:
 Benefits - Wonderful feel, my favorite out of my collection. Very
 substantial build, makes an excellent improvised weapon. Bliss to type
 on.

 Drawbacks - Very, very heavy. Let me emphasize heavy... It makes my
 Lombards or my ThinkPad seem light in comparison. It is also loud. Very
 loud, and I've been booted from a class for using it instead of my
 built-in keyboard before. Only 101 keys, so no Command key.

 Dell AT101W:
 Benefits - Fairly cheap, well-built (not quite as well as the AEKII, but
 very close) and uses the Alps switches, like the AEKII. Also fun to type
 on. PS/2 to USB converters are cheaper than ADB to USB converters, by a
 lot. Available in black, as well as beige. Looks a lot like the AEKII.

 Drawbacks - Have to look at Windows keys, keycaps nearly impossible to
 remove (like the AEKII), Dell logo. Key lettering can wear pretty badly
 on the black ones.

 Keyboards are very subjective, though. Personally, I like the AEKII, but
 honestly, if I didn't need an ADB board, I'd get the Dell, because it
 looks almost identical, has the same switches and is cheaper to make
 work on a modern Mac.

 Just my $0.02,
 Caleb

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Re: Heavy duty, feels-good keyboard for typist with a vengeance

2010-02-25 Thread Caleb S. Cupples
On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 11:21 -0500, diane wrote:

 I have one of these in my attic - from 1985. Is there an adapter that 
 would work on a modern-day Mac? (it's not a PS/2 version, it's the 
 old big round plug).
 
 I am using a Mcally iKey bought back in 2002 on my G4 and it's much 
 better than the Apple keyboard but nothing like the old IBM!

What you will need is an AT- PS/2 adapter (It's just a simple passive
adapter, the standards are identical, electrically) and then use an
active PS/2 - USB converter. I have both, which I bought from
clickykeyboards.com and they work great with my Macs.

Caleb


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Re: Heavy duty, feels-good keyboard for typist with a vengeance

2010-02-25 Thread James Therrault


On Feb 25, 2010, at 10:21 AM, diane wrote:


At 6:16 AM -0800 2/25/10, Austin Leeds wrote:


  The IBM AT keyboard is known as the Model M, and it came in several
revisions, from ancient to fairly modern. The mechanisms in the Model



I have one of these in my attic - from 1985. Is there an adapter  
that would work on a modern-day Mac? (it's not a PS/2 version, it's  
the old big round plug).


I am using a Mcally iKey bought back in 2002 on my G4 and it's much  
better than the Apple keyboard but nothing like the old IBM!



The old Mac II extended keyboards were very good.  But they were of  
course ADB.  I still have a couple of those somewhere...


JT



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Re: Heavy duty, feels-good keyboard for typist with a vengeance

2010-02-25 Thread Kasey Smith
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Austin Leeds
firepowerforfree...@gmail.com wrote:

  So, my question is, are there any of you out there that use
 keyboards in the caliber of the Apple Extended Keyboard and the IBM
 Model M? How do you like them, and would they be worth carrying around
 (with a USB adapter, of course)?

Someone just posted this in another thread:
http://matias.ca/tactilepro/index.php
Also, Clarinovas are awesome, our school has one and it sounds so real!

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Heavy duty, feels-good keyboard for typist with a vengeance

2010-02-24 Thread Austin Leeds
  I'm a member of several of the LEM groups, as I operate a whole
variety of Macs in a variety of situations at a variety of different
times. I have my faithful PowerBook G3 Pismo 500 MHz with Tiger that I
use for several hours every day; my sister has my PowerBook Duo 230
that I fiddle with every few months or so; my sister also has my old
iBook Clamshell 300 MHz with OS X Puma that I've been upgrading for
her; I bought an iMac G4 800 MHz with Tiger that my mother uses
frequently throughout the day (and my younger brother plays SNES games
with an emulator on it); I work with 2009 Intel iMacs at college for
newspaper production and fun; and I am currently preparing to state my
case to have an old Digital Audio G4 upgraded at college for use with
a Yamaha Clavinova keyboard and Finale 2008.
  That said, I'm used to anachronisms. I'm probably one of the few
people my age that wouldn't mind playing/working with System 7 (or
earlier). I grew up unknowingly loving Macs, and my passion for this
different breed of computers will continue as I purchase my iPad 3G in
April.
  However, I am a very heavy typist. Between English, my college
newspaper, emails, chats, and my yet-unfinished novels, I am
constantly typing. My Pismo has a great keyboard for a laptop, but I
wouldn't mind having something more comfortable and durable. The
difference between the keyboards I work with and the keyboard I would
like to have is like the difference between a cheap Casio keyboard and
my college's $4000 Yamaha Clavinovas (as close to a grand as you can
get in an electronic, complete with real piano levers/hammers and
heavy keys).

  So, my question is, are there any of you out there that use
keyboards in the caliber of the Apple Extended Keyboard and the IBM
Model M? How do you like them, and would they be worth carrying around
(with a USB adapter, of course)?

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