[UK-CONTEST] Good Keyboards

[Dave Sergeant]

On 25 Jan 2011 at 12:03, Frank 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.

Yes, as another long time touch typist, I agree that most modern 
keyboards are decidely yuk and seem to be designed by people who use 
one finger. This one on my desktop is not too bad (but still loads of 
keys not in the place you expect them), the 98SE laptop I use for 
contests is usable but not ideal, probably a lot better though than 
modern laptops. I wonder how people get on with Netbooks which seem to 
have miniscule keys - and I would never want to use things like iPads 
in a contest...

73 Dave G3YMC

http://www.davesergeant.com