[VoIP] OT - A good clicky springy PC keyboard

[Mad Mark]

>      For several years now, I've been looking for a good PC keyboard that 
> has a definite key click as you type, and just has that good old feel like 
> the old IBM and Lexmark keyboards had. I was very disappointed to learn 
> several years ago that Lexmark had discontinued their keyboard line. What I 
> didn't learn then is that they sold their keyboard technology to another 
> company called Unicomp. I just found out about Unicomp on Tuesday morning 
> after doing a Google search, and immediately ordered one of their Customizer 
> 104-key models, so I'd have the Windows keys. I got it this evening, and 
> it's great! It has pretty much the same Lexmark feel I'm so used to, and not 
> the feel of those $5.00 keyboards you get with new computers, or most of 
> what's on the store shelves. The 101-key model costs $49.95, and the 104-key 
> model, with the Windows keys, costs $69.95. Shipping is usually between $5 
> and $7.50 or so, and they charge tax on orders shipped to Kentucky. Bottom 
> line. If you're looking for a keyboard like the old IBM and/or Lexmark 
> keyboards, and have been frustrated by all these modern-day squishy/flat 
> keyboards, go to www.pckeyboard.com and buy one from Unicomp. The technology 
> they use is called Buckling Spring, as opposed to the Rubber Dome technology 
> most modern keyboards use. While shopping around for keyboards last year, I 
> was amazed when I found a display model with some key caps missing, and 
> underneath were just some tiny rubber things which were the equivalent of 
> the springs in these good old keyboards! No wonder they don't feel nearly as 
> good!
> Jayson 

I grew up on those old keyboards. The solid click that you could actually FEEL through the keyboard. I was very disappointed when we moved on to the rubber membrane keyboards. So much so that I make a program to pop the PC speaker every time a key was pressed. Still wasn't the same, though, but a little better. I remember hacking an AT-style keyboard connector onto an XT-style clickey keyboard, just so I could use it on our "modern" 286 machine... until my brother pinched it for his computer because he liked it better. :)

Same with the old hard-drives. Now days hard-drives have acoustic suppression technology built into them. You're lucky to even hear them at all. Not in the old days, no siree. You KNEW when your hard-drive was doing something by the loud "CLAKA-CLAKA-CLAKA-CHUNK" they used to make. Or if you were "lucky" enough to own an even older hard-drive like we did, (I'm talking 20 MEGA-bytes here) they went "Vreeeet! Vooooort! Veeevoort! Vee, veee, vooooort!" as the stepper motor worked like crazy swinging the drive heads around. I believe I still have one of those old machines lying around somewhere... It's probably ready for a permanent home at the Smithsonian Institute by now.

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