[VoIP] OT - A good clicky springy PC keyboard

Thu Jan 24 19:05:00 CST 2008

Aah, Leisure Suit Larry was known for it's... risque plot, hence the Tsk-ing.

But yeah, I used to play the old text-adventures. I particularly remember The Bard's Tail for the Commodore 64. This one stuck with me because it had graphics, and a rudimentary 3D world display. I've also played (and hacked, sssh) Castle for the IBM-compatible. There is another one I'm trying to remember from the Commodore 64... by McGraw Hill software company... That one was nice, too.

My memory isn't the greatest, and a messed-up brain chemistry when I was a kid makes it hard to remember the others.

My boss plays an online multi-player text adventure called Sloth-mud, and swears by it.

> From: spenadel at gmail.com
> To: voip at ckts.info
> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:33:29 -0500
> Subject: Re: [VoIP] OT - A good clicky springy PC keyboard
> 
> Mark,
> 
> Sounds like you played and "died" from .....?????
> 
> Lee
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: voip-bounces at ckts.info [mailto:voip-bounces at ckts.info] On Behalf Of
> Mad Mark
> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 10:17 AM
> To: Voice Over IP Tandem for Analog Switches
> Subject: Re: [VoIP] OT - A good clicky springy PC keyboard
> 
> 
> 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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