[VoIP] OT - A good clicky springy PC keyboard

[Mad Mark]

Leisure Suit Larry? Tsk tsk. :)

> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:11:47 +1100
> From: richardlane at exemail.com.au
> To: voip at ckts.info
> Subject: Re: [VoIP] OT - A good clicky springy PC keyboard
> 
> Yeah I remember those...
> 
> My first computer was a XT clone made by a company called Amstrad. It 
> had a 13.something EGA monitor with a 5.25 inch single double sided 
> double density drive with a whopping capacity of 360KB. It also had a 
> MFM hard drive made by Seagate which had a capacity of 30 megabytes. 
> When we bought this machine our family were like the people down the 
> road with the huge hard drive.
> 
> The sounds were great from the old hard drives and I still have an IDE 
> 40MB western digital drive in my possession. I also have kept all my 
> original disks and games including California games, world games, the 
> sierra games (kings quest, police quest, space quest, leisure suit larry 
> etc.
> 
> I only just chucked out my original Epson FX80 8 pin dot matrix printer 
> last week after a clean up.
> 
> Ah the days
> 
> 
> Mad Mark wrote:
> >>      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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