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

[covici@ccs.covici.com]

Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2012-11-06, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >> 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?
> 
> Yea, Unicomp bought the rights and sells them for $80:
> 
>    http://www.pckeyboard.com/
> 
> I was thrilled when I saw they offered a "spacesaver M" model.  I
> thought it was going to be a clone of the IBM 84-key model M "space
> saver" that IBM sold back in 87-89.
> 
> Nope.  It's the same desk-hogging size as a regular M -- not really
> sure where the "space saving" comes from.
> 
> So now I'm really torn between the key-action of the M and the smaller
> size and built-in pointer of the IBM spacesaver II.
> 
> Once upon a time, there was a Minnesota company called Omnikey that
> made excellent keyboards -- almost as good as the model M (and they
> had a dipswitch and extra keycaps that let you have a proper Control
> key).  I think got bought by Northgate, and then went out of business
> back when all the other smaller clone manufactures...

Take a look at a company called Ergonomic Resources -- sorry I no longer
have the URL, but they make a similar keyboard which has actual
switches! etc.  I  do have the name -- Avant keyboard.

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