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- From: sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon)
- Subject: Re: Crystal Scan vs. MAG MX15F - and - Alternatatives to Anykey Keyboard
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 21:57:13 GMT
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- In <1hcprpINNi38@crcnis1.unl.edu> price@helios.unl.edu (Chad Price) writes:
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- >friedman@starbase.trincoll.edu (Mark A. Friedman) writes:
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- >>The Anykey keyboard does not feel solid to me. I prefer a heavier
- >>(metallic) keyboard and find the Anykey to have a cheap plastic feel.
- >>Can someone recommend a brand of keyboard or a specific keyboard to
- >>look at?
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- >I've used all sorts of keyboards over the years. My favorites have been (in no
- >particular order), Northgate keyboards, older Zenith keyboards (say pre 1990),
- >and the keyboard on the Dell I got at work this year. These all have a firm
- >bottom to the keystroke, medium key pressure, and no electronic click.
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- I like the Nortgate keyboards myself. Built good, and provide nice
- positive feedback. Also like that you can swap the Ctrl key to where it
- should be, on the left center.
-
- As far as other keyboards goes. The ones on the Dell are pretty good. One
- of my all time favorites is the IBM PC/AT keyboard. They still come on the
- PS/2 and PS/Valuepoint series. Lexmark now sells these seperately.
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- My least favorite, tho, has got to be the old Zenith keyboards pre 1990.
- Sorry, but we've got about 20 of them here in our lab, and at least a
- quarter of them have something wrong with them. There is also no feedback
- in the keys, they just go clunk. In truth my opinion is all Zenith computer
- equipment pre-Bull days was junk. We've just got too much of the stuff here
- sitting with problems.
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- sheldon@iastate.edu Steve Sheldon
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