Am I the only person who doesn't like a model
"M".
No, you're not. I don't care for the weird resistance profile that's
acquired the name "tactile feedback". I want to feel just steadily
increasing back-pressure (ie, a simple spring) until the key strikes
the hard stop at the end of its travel. In particular, no bump partway
down and no mushy squish of substantially increased resistance for the
last millimeter or so of travel.
My favourite keyboard - though admittedly perhaps coloured rosy by
nostalgic memory - was a particular model of Symbolics Lisp Machine
keyboard I used in the late '80s. My second favourite, my favourite
that is actually obtanium, is the Sun type-3. (When it's in good
shape. A type-3 in bad shape borders on unusable, and I don't mean
just distasteful to use; I mean it can actually be difficult to get
keys to depress enough to register.)
Mind you, I'll take a Model M over today's typical cheap crap keyboard,
but that's not because I like it but because I dislike it less.
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