On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Jeffrey Race <[email protected]> wrote:
> No it's even better than that one; you need the famous > 13H6705 "clickety clack" kbd. One is on ebay > > < > http://cgi.ebay.com/IBM-13H6705-TrackPoint-PS-2-keyboard-mouse-M13-Combo-/330492476733?pt=PCA_Mice_ > Trackballs&hash=item4cf2e2fd3d#ht_1226wt_1140<http://cgi.ebay.com/IBM-13H6705-TrackPoint-PS-2-keyboard-mouse-M13-Combo-/330492476733?pt=PCA_Mice_Trackballs&hash=item4cf2e2fd3d#ht_1226wt_1140> > > > > I bought three of them some years back at the MIT Amateur Radio > Society monthly swapmeet, $35 per pc. (Being 67 all my > purchases are now end-of-life buys.) > > If you keep looking you may be able to find for less. > Nice keyboard! For the curious, here's the datasheet: http://web.archive.org/web/20041011183846/http://www.ibmlink.ibm.com/HTML/SPEC/g2213946.html#ekwtip I had two or three of these back in the day - mine were the 92G7461 white model. How are the TrackPoint mechanisms doing on your keyboards, though? Mine never lasted more than a year if that. First the buttons would go mushy and stop working unless you pressed really hard, and then the stick itself would go bad and even break. The *key* mechanisms on these would probably last forever, but the TrackPoints were pretty poor. Let's see... Hey, Unicomp makes a USB model of this keyboard now: http://pckeyboards.stores.yahoo.net/en104wh.html This would be the real thing, buckling springs and all - these guys are the old IBM/Lexmark keyboard people: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicomp <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicomp>I wonder if they've improved the Trackpoint mechanicals? :-) > For me as a touch typist I can go like a flash on this > kbd, so the investment pays off in time and money. > My wife also knows I'm working because she can hear me > (unlike on the mushy T43 kbd I formerly used). > Yes, there is that sound. For the nostalgic, check out the fairly interesting Wikipedia article on the Model M: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_M_Keyboard In the Design section there's a sound clip. Speakers up! > Someone (I think earlier on this list) explained that the > keys on the new Thinkpads are so crummy in comparison because > all the kbds on the famous old thinkpads were designed by > typewriter engineers, not kids just out of some Chinese diploma > mill like now. > In all fairness, you would never see a Model M-style keyboard in a ThinkPad anyway. Too heavy and too tall. Check the patent illustration to see how tall the keys have to be to accommodate the buckling spring mechanism: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/IBM_buckling_spring.svg So back to your original question, when PMMail is responding slowly, does it respond any differently from the ThinkPad's own keyboard? -Mike _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
