Re: OT: clicky keyboards

On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 01:21:25AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 01:08:47PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
Totally OT, except it's on my debian box ;)

If you need that amazingly insightful gift for someone (yourself?)
this year, check out www.clickykeyboards.com for real IBM
keyboards. Mine just arrived and I'm in heaven.

I hate to bump a commercial enterprise like that, but I know many of
you do lots of typing...

Wow, I used to have those at work. They are really great and probably
indestructible, but not really useful for a laptop user ... I wonder
what happened to them when we replaced them. Hhmm, maybe I can still
find one.

I"ve been typing on mine for a couple hours now and it's
fantastic. The sound takes me back. And once you adjust to an
ever-so-slightly-different key spacing, it's a breeze. I swear I'm
typing faster with fewer mistakes. And definitely less fatigue.

Finding an old one lying around would definitely be a score.

They only weigh about 5 pounds, why not get a ps/2-usb adaptor and
carry one with the laptop?

A

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