1 Jun
2016
1 Jun
'16
9:59 a.m.
On 01 Jun 2016, at 16:46 , Liam Proven <lproven at
gmail.com> wrote:
On 1 June 2016 at 00:16, Swift Griggs <swiftgriggs at gmail.com> wrote:
The Apple //e, //c, //c+ and //GS all had mechanical and somewhat clicky keyboards (using
various types of Alps keyswitches). I'm also pretty certain that the original Mac had
a (very nice) clicky keyboard.
I've never
known them to create "clackety" keyboards with mechanical switches
But that's the point. This here Extended II has them, as did the
Extended I before it. (I have one of them too, but I couldn't find it
in my storage unit in London to bring it over here to the Czech
Republic.)
I think the earlier ones do too, but they, although pleasant to type
on, have weird key layouts, especially of the cursor keys. The
Extended I & II have a PC-like layout, which minimised the mental
effort of switching between my Mac, my PC laptops and my IBM Model-M
equipped Raspberry Pi. "Inverted T" FTW!