21 Apr
2011
21 Apr
'11
2:14 p.m.
Fred Cisin wrote:
> and yet, it was the chiklets shaped keys that people actually
> objected to.
[...]
There's a REASON that typewriter keys weren't
just flat square things.
The concavity of the key tops made the typist's fingertips self-center
rather than wandering off. Chiclet keyboard don't do that, and are an
abomination.
Do you conside the HP9185 and HP8825/9831 keyboards to be 'chicklets'?
They havea very short travel and low profile keys, but one thing HP did
right was to make the keys dished in the centre to locate your fingers.
The HP9825 keybaord was replaced by a full-travel one later one. I assume
the 9831 one was too, but that machine is hard enoguh to find as it is.
-tony