[Coco] CoCo4! 50% done!

[mike delyea]

If you ever watch NCIS you'd think they all used mechanical keyboards just
by the sound of their typing.  Probably the foley artists have the actual
mechanical keyboards.


On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 10:03 PM, Bill Loguidice <bill at armchairarcade.com>wrote:

> I would agree that the "dark ages" are over. There are plenty of superb USB
> mechanical gaming and non-gaming keyboards that can handle n-key rollover
> and all kinds of other advanced functions. I have several modern mechanical
> keyboards that I like, including ones from Razr (Black Widow, which I use
> at work), the Logitech G710+ (which I use on my desktop at home), and
> a Gigabyte Aivia Osmium (spare, sometimes used on my gaming laptop). The
> hardest part is deciding which color mechanical switch you like best (at
> the moment I'm partial to the Cherry MX Browns in the G710+). I'm all for
> classic keyboards (particularly the original IBM PC keyboards, which still
> are some of the finest made), but for me and my eye comfort, I really can't
> accept anything that's not backlit these days.
>
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> On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 9:42 PM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I was a long time model M devotee.  Still have two and will never let
> them
> > go.
> >
> > That said, there has been a revival in mechanical switch keyboards in
> > recent years.  You can now get a variety of keyboards with them. My main
> > keyboard these days is a Filco TenKeyless.  Yes, the lack of any numeric
> > keypad is actually one of its key selling points.  When you consider how
> > much distance your right hand has to travel between typing position and
> > mouse position,  removing the numeric pad saves your arm miles of
> movement
> > in a year.  Nearly instant improvement in overall navigation speed just
> by
> > not forcing the mouse to be 5 inches farther away than it has to be.
>  Then
> > you have the key switches, which are the best part.  Imagine a model M
> that
> > feels "light" somehow but still has that cerchunk that let's you know
> > everything is OK.  The switches are mechanically similar to those used in
> > the model M, just different weighting and trigger points, and IMHO its a
> > (very slight) change for the better.   They are still just as annoying to
> > everyone around as the model M keys are, I can provide references for
> that.
> >
> > Back when I got this keyboard it was only available in Japan and I paid
> > nearly as much to a buying service as I did for the keyboard itself.
>  Came
> > out to over $300 and worth every penny 100 times over in terms of
> > efficiency.  Today you can get them on Amazon for under $100.  There are
> > other vendors and models that are very good too.  The dark ages of
> holding
> > onto your model M desperately are (maybe) over :).
> >
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