Re: [gentoo-user] Re: (double)click

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 6 Nov 2012 14:06:37 +0000 (UTC)
Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2012-11-05, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > and my prized possession: a Dell-branded Model-M craftily lifted
> > out of the corner where it was hiding and no-one knew what it even
> > was :-)
> 
> Microsoft can't touch IBM when it comes to quality keyboards.
> 
> The keyboard that came with my 8Mhz IBM PC-AT back in 1986 still gets
> used every day and still works as good as the day I unpacked it.  It's
> an absolutely brilliant job of engineering and manufacturing.

That's because it's a Model M - the best keyboard ever made IMNSHO

You know you can still buy those?
Some crowd bought the entire manufacturing rights to the Model M and
set up shop making them for sale. Same keyboard, some models have
electronic updates (like USB), same brilliant key action, same ability
to be used as a lethal weapon (club) or as a cricket bat ;-)

Cost is around $100 each last time I looked.





> 
> I'm also very fond the IBM "space saver" keyaboard with the built in
> "eraser nub" mouse keys and _without_ the waste-of-space numeric
> keypad.  I'm an engineer, not a checkout clerk at a grocery store...
> 
> I _really_ wanted to like my happy hacker keyboard, but the key action
> was just too stiff and vague.
> 



-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com