A Selective History Of The Keyboard

Anonymous Gimp writes "Today's keyboards aren't what they used to be, no sir! Back in my day, we had our BS technology; our keyboards had chassis which allowed 'em to be thrown off a 3-story building and still work - barely dented. Yes those were the days. Now we've got these newfangled Wireless Ergonomic E-Mail button membrane keyboards. To heck with them, I say!"

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My keyboard is on my lap

[dcstimm]

Since i sit in a lazy boy when on my computer I tend to have the keyboard on my lap, and I am very glad its made of light weight plastic. To bad its not wireless:(

Small enter, big pipes

[NaCh0]

As long as I have an IBM PC "workstation" keyboard, with the skinny rectangular Enter key and 2 key wide backslash/pipe key above it, I'm happy.

Join the cult of "Model M"

[frozenray]

This site is dedicated to the one and only real PC keyboard. Quoting from it: Geeks will debate about the best keyboard in existence long after the sun supernovas. I happen to really like the IBM Model M. The fact that I have collected more than two dozen of the keyboards is testament to that. Or that I am clinically insane.

I have six of them: two at work, one at home, three spares (not that I think I'd ever need them, given the amount of abuse these babies can take, but I don't want to take any chances).