8 Aug
2006
8 Aug
'06
11:07 p.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 8/7/2006 at 11:09 PM Zane H. Healy wrote:
When you make a *quality* keyboard, the keycaps are shot
*twice* during the molding process -- once for the legend
and once for the key itself. So, the legend's color is
"in the plastic" instead of screened *on* the plastic.
Obviously, costs a fair bit more to do things this way.
Just like equipment cases that re *painted* vs. those
where the color is molded into the plastic.
At 9:30 PM -0700 8/7/06, Don wrote:
Get yourself the "Cadillac" of keyboards, the "Apple Extended
Keyboard II". It's an ADB keyboard that originally sold for $160.
I've been using the one I'm typing this on for just short of 10
years. Only one of the 3 computers I've used it on had ADB, the
other two are USB. I'm currently using a G5 2x2.
I'm sitting in front of an HP keyboard that was pulled new out of its box
not six months ago. As I look at it now, the legneds on the "A" and
"J"
keys are barely legible. Why are keyboards such pieces of junk nowadays?
Time to go back to my IBM model M.