[UK-CONTEST] Good Keyboards

[Callum McC]

Give me your address I have a number of brand new, full-sized IBM  
keyboards. I'll send you one.

Callum McCormick
07976 631881


On 25 Jan 2011, at 12:03, "Frank" <frank at knockycoid.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Can anyone recommend a type/brand/make of keyboard for PCs which has  
> a good tactile key action.  I taught myself to touch-type some years  
> ago but nowadays I get very frustrated when typing a document or  
> email, to find a number of errors.  Most errors are missing  
> characters due to insufficient key depression on my part, but  
> sometimes repeated characters where I have overcompensated in key  
> depression.  This  is irritating in normal use like typing an email  
> but becomes very frustrating, and embarrassing, during a contest,  
> when my response to another station is erroneous.
> I spent many years in the IT industry in the days just leading up to  
> the advent of the IBM PC.  Most keyboards in use then were  
> associated with golf ball typewriters and VDUs.  Many were very  
> good.  The keyboards produced by IBM in particular were extremely  
> well designed from the point of view of the feel to an operator's  
> fingers and were intended to encourage fast accurate keying.  At a  
> rally/car-boot sale last year I bought several different PC  
> keyboards with which to experiment but they all were equally bad.   
> The last PC keyboard I possessed which had anything like a good feel  
> to it was the one supplied with the old IBM AT PC.
>
> Frank GM3JKS
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