On Thursday 09 August 2007 03:48, Eberhard Roloff wrote:
Doug McGarrett wrote:
On Wednesday 08 August 2007 05:03, Eberhard Roloff wrote:
Kaare Rasmussen wrote:
Hi
One missing thing in your list imho: How silent will your computer need to be and what will you be able to spend for silence?
Anyone has any input to this? Any sites that can help me with the configuration, any do-it-yourself sites?
As regards silence, the old IBM keyboards are absolutely the most wonderful and loud keyboards in existance. Some electronics/computer/ham-radio fleamarkets have these. If noise is no object, get one! They seem to last forever. No Windows keys, but you probably wouldn't care.
--doug, wa2say
Fully agreed!!!! Although I confess being a silent PC geek and there is hardly anything that nerves me more than noisy PCs that I must work with for hours , this does not apply to keyboards.
This is typed on a Model M style keyboard with 122 keys that I got from ebay for 10â¬. Looks like this http://www.shoppalstores.com/ibmmodelm/image//2002021-004.jpg
The pictured keyboard is apparently a foreign version. I'm using 2 model Ms on my computers, and all the keys work with Linux or Windows, except probably the Scroll Lock, Print Screen, and Pause keys that I've never seen work on anything. My American model M's do not have any keys left of the Tab, Caps- Lock, Shift, Ctrl. And the bottom left alpha key is Z. --doug, wa2say
Unfortunately not all keys work with a PC, but all I need and much more is there. This one is also suitable for self-defence and in case you need a hammer but do not one, you do not need to buy one.
They are great, they are even greater when your PC is silent and they are greatest when there is no one else in the room who is constantly complaining about your IBM klicky-keyboard noise. ;-)
Lately I found a solution to the latter problem and bought my wife another Model M. Now we are both on Klickey-Keyboard, she never wants to use anything else keyboardwise and most important, we are in love, once again. ;-))
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