D'Oh!

[the_gneech]

Keyboard had a little accident last night involving a water bottle. So now I need to find a new one, using the old Pavilion in the meantime. My big complaint about it is: why doesn't anybody make keyboards that properly CLICK any more? They're all these mushy "soft-touch" pieces of junk. UGH.

Oh well, I don't have time to deal with it today, I've got in-laws to go visit. CYA tomorrow everybody!

-The Gneech

Comments

[fallwind.livejournal.com]

actually, i have an old MicroSoft split keyboard im using now that has a nice solid click to it. Its the model with the dymond shaped arrow key confieration insted of the normal triangle (the left and right are directly side by side with the up and down above and below insted of having the down arrow between the right and left)

i have NO idea if the current versions still click, but have a look at a MS one.

[banditloaf.livejournal.com]

Wow! Someone else who likes click-y keyboards... the other CIC guys have been making fun of my super-loud circa-1987 IBM PS/2 keyboard for years now (G) But there's just something really neat about the clicking.

[elektron.livejournal.com]

If cleaning the keyboard doesn't work (sugar water is especially bad), borrowing one from the old computer is probably better than using the old computer.

I had one of those old clicky keyboards (springs), except the e key didn't work so I trashed it. I like them, except for the loud bit.

[kelloggs2066.livejournal.com]

Can't you turn on the key clicking noise?

[galish.livejournal.com]

Most Belkin keyboards click, note they are cheap keyboards tho.

Gal'ish

[aragontigerseye.livejournal.com]

Those old, large and heavy (thusly dubbed "desktop dominator")- IBM Keyboards with the klicking keys are still rather easy to get... at least over here... ;>

[sporklord.livejournal.com]

I know! What's the point if it doesn't click? It would be like writing with a pen nib that doesn't make scratchy-scratch noises. It just isn't RIGHT!

the cheaper the keyboard, generally the more pronounced the click..

[mammallamadevil.livejournal.com]

although this 4.99 one I'm using right now doesn't really click and clack..(grin)...you just need to go to CompUSA or Microcenter, try 'em all out, and don't stick the water bottle anywhere near it!...(grin)...

MLD

Re: the cheaper the keyboard, generally the more pronounced the click..

[jim-lane.livejournal.com]

I've given up some REALLY good "clicky" keyboards, mainly due to the RACKET they make in the dead of night (racket that awakens others in the house---!).

I happen to LIKE "clicky" keyboards, since they usually also have good "feedback" on the keystrokes. This harkens back to learning to touch type in high school, working on Royal office MANUAL typewriters. The Underwoods had "dead" keyboards; no tactile feedback at all. The Smith Coronas were "loose" and "rattly"; I hated them and the Underwoods. LOVED the Royals (IBMs were good, too) and in later years bought several Royal portables (manual and electric), manily due to the keyboard feel.

When "home computers" came onto the scene, my first one was a Commodore 64, and one of the reasons I bought it (over the Apple II and others of the era) was because it had a GOOD keyboard feel. (I bought it to revise a finished, flawed novel, one that I refused to struggle through once again on a #@$%!! typewriter!)

Currently I use (at home) a Logitech keyboard; no "click", but nice feedback---and it's CHEAP, too! (hehehe!!!) My novel writing is (and has been for some years) done on Toshiba notebooks, mainly due to their NICE keyboards. IBM notebooks, too, have what are considered to be (along with Toshibas) the best-feeling keyboards in the industry, at least to us "old-timers" who appreciate such things.

(grin!)

[xoagray.livejournal.com]

I love the old clickers. I myself have a Addison ergonomic mechanical keyboard, and love it. But if it ever breaks, I'm going to be screwed, I've never seen another ergonomic mechanical anywhere. As for the IBM Desk Dominators, I've got two AT&T look alikes that I keep in reserve. I like those too. :)

Heh, and if you shut the door to your room at night, people don't hear the keyboard. But I"ve been told that with the door to my room open, you can hear me typing all the way across the house. I don't care, they'll just have to deal with it. I'm not giving up my clicker, it's special. :)

*wags tail*
Xoa Gray
The clicking wuff

[koogrr.livejournal.com]

NMB makes some mechanical keyboards that click.