[SATLUG] [OT] Custom keyboards

[John Chalinder]

Totally Awesome... I'll keep this in mind when I go to build my custom desktop 
system next year. Thanks for the links. I think it would be great to get back 
to a keyboard that feels right. These modern jobs just don't feel right, and 
are the main cause of most of my typos. I first learned touch typing on an old 
Smith Corona manual. My all time favorite typewriter was an original IBM 
Selectric. Noisy, but what fun! When I first got it I bought one type ball per 
month until I had all the fonts I wanted. It kept me busy right up until I got 
my first Apple II+ w/two Raina Elite III 5-1/4" dual sided, double density 
disk drives, no hard drive (at $1000/MB, hard drives were way out of my 
budget). With the addition of the 'language' board, I had a screaming 64K of 
RAM! That, and an Epson dot-matrix printer and an acoustically coupled 300 
baud modem ... and I thought I was in computer heaven. Compared to what I have 
now, of course, it was comparable to chipping programs in stone. But, at the 
time I felt like I had some real power under my fingertips. Today, my Toshiba 
Satellite P25 S607 laptop with a 2.8GHz CPU, 2GB of RAM, an 80GB onboard hard 
drive and a 120GB external hard drive is beginning to feel a bit slow. I guess 
it's all a matter of perspective. This must be what it felt like for my father 
when he was reminiscing about his first car, a 1930 Model A Ford Roadster. He 
said one day I'd understand... :P


On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 23:11:41 -0600
  Alan <alesmerises at satx.rr.com> wrote:
> A friend of mine at work forwarded this to me.
> 
> Remember the good old IBM clicky keyboards?  This guy made a customized 
>keyboard using one and made it to look like an old-style manual typewriter:
> 
>    http://steampunkworkshop.com/keyboard.shtml
> 
> Also check out the link <http://www.datamancer.net/keyboards/keyboards.htm>. 
> They're making and selling a variety of similar keyboards.  (They're only 
>charging $800-$1000 each!)
> 
> 
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