Harry Krause wrote:

I normally use an Avant Prime keyboard (very expensive) because of the
"feel" of its keys and its weight. If you write for a living, you tend
to want a quality keyboard. The best there is, really, but about $150.

I found a less-expensive alternative for my server PC. I don't type on
it that much. For $60, I ordered what I would call a damned close
duplicate of the quality keyboards IBM used to ship with its PCs.

It has spring-loaded keys and it weighs about five pounds.

http://tinyurl.com/9heh8

It's pretty nice for the money.


This can't be the real Harry. He would know that all keyboards have
springs in the keys.

Dan

Harry Krause wrote:

Dan Krueger wrote:

Harry Krause wrote:

I normally use an Avant Prime keyboard (very expensive) because of
the "feel" of its keys and its weight. If you write for a living, you
tend to want a quality keyboard. The best there is, really, but about
$150.

I found a less-expensive alternative for my server PC. I don't type
on it that much. For $60, I ordered what I would call a damned close
duplicate of the quality keyboards IBM used to ship with its PCs.

It has spring-loaded keys and it weighs about five pounds.

http://tinyurl.com/9heh8

It's pretty nice for the money.


This can't be the real Harry. He would know that all keyboards have
springs in the keys.

Dan


Oh...no they don't.

Maybe not metal springs, but what else are there?

Around 10/21/2005 5:16 PM, Dan Krueger wrote:

Harry Krause wrote:

Dan Krueger wrote:

Harry Krause wrote:

It has spring-loaded keys and it weighs about five pounds.

http://tinyurl.com/9heh8

It's pretty nice for the money.


This can't be the real Harry. He would know that all keyboards have
springs in the keys.

Dan



Oh...no they don't.


Maybe not metal springs, but what else are there?

The most common these days is a flexible rubber membrane. They may be
"springy" but they have no actual springs.

I've got an original like the one Harry linked to, circa 1985. They're
really sturdy keyboards; I should pick up an AT adapter someday and see
if it still works.

Other than that, $60 is just too much for a keyboard, IMO. I'll stick
with my MS Natural Multimedia, thank you very much.


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