6 May
2012
6 May
'12
5:08 p.m.
On 6 May 2012 at 19:12, Mouse wrote:
> Am I the only person who doesn't like a model
"M".
Well, I learned to type on a typewriter (manual), so my keystrokes
probably want to be deeper. Most modern keyboards don't have enough
key travel for my taste. The model M is better than most--although
I've heard that the IBM Displaywriter keyboard is much better in that
respect.
Old keyboards (going back to the 60s) for computers sometimes had a
speaker mounted under the keyboard to provide a clunk-clunk sound
(that double-eyeball DD60 display for the big CDC machines certainly
did--even had a volume control).
Tactile feedback is certainly necessary for fast typing--there are
studies that have shown that. So you can keep your keyboard-on-a-
touch screen. Touch typists learn to start with fingers resting on
the home keys--which probably doesn't make capacitive touch keyboards
very happy.
--Chuck