I think it's not more of the noise, but the feel, the noisy keyboards
genearly have a better feel, of something actualy hapening when you type..
plus some of us have to look at a 2nd source of information when they
type, and can't look at the screen to see what they just typed.. it's the
full feedback thing.. plus, from what I've seen, most of the soft-key
keypads can be sticky, just low-quality crap.. makes it hard to type on.
at work I have an old IBM AT thing, with the removeable keycaps, I pop all
the caps off, and dishwasher them everyonce in a while.. I don't
dishwasher the whole keyboard tho..
Thank You,
Ben Kochie (ben at nerp.net)
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On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, fjorn wrote:
> I must be the odd one here. I like to type on a quiet keyboard. Can't stand
> the incessant clickety-click while typing. Worked with a guy who had one of
> those. Needless to say one day it died, and was I ever grateful that he
> couldn't find anymore like it!
>
> Why do you need a noisey KB to type anyway? Is it to make sure that you know
> you're hitting the key? Why not just look at the monitor when typing instead of
> your fingers, makes better use of your time.
>
> For me, I prefer the newer vintage IBM keyboards.... Gone are the days of being
> in a noisey computer room that masked the noise of the old keyboards.
>
> Shawn
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