Apple & SGI keyboards (Re: NEC ProSpeed 386)

On Tue, 31 May 2016, Liam Proven wrote: I'm not a huge Apple zealot to the point of wearing black turtlenecks every day, but I gotta hand it to them, they have been a big innovator with keyboard design. They (almost?) always design their own keyboards. They have had big fat key'd ones and tiny thin aluminum designs, ones with huge borders and ones with nearly zero borders, but they've always tried to put a little bit of pinache therein. Successful or not, I respect them a lot for trying, and several of their designs are very nice. I've never known them to create "clackety" keyboards with mechanical switches, but then again there are only two groups who care: gamers and curmudgeons (*grin*). I made my choice to be an "IT guy" a long time ago, I might as well do it in style and comfort with the most beautiful gear I can get. Thus, the IT gear I'm least afraid to drop money on is my keyboard and monitor. Okay cash on keyboards in my case is a vulgar embarrassment (let's just not talk about that *ugh*), but monitors I only buy once every few years (if that much). When I do buy one, I choose *very* carefully. That was the one thing that never really shone in the SGI world, despite some cool fru-fru in other places. I have a granite slab keyboard and an SGI USB keyboard. Neither is anything special (and the USB one has DOMES *gasp*... the horror). However, SGI did have the "dials and buttons" and "Spaceball" interfaces. So what they lose in style points for lack of cool keyboard designs I have to re-award for their other cool input devices. -Swift