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Qiuet Keyboards with Tactile Feedback?

Posted by Cliff on from the keyclicking-without-the-clicks dept.

zerOnIne asks: "Like many geeks I know, I love good old clicky mechanical tactile-feedback keyboards. I've got an IBM Model M (101 key) on the server, and a Linux CoolKeyboard on my desktop, and I wouldn't want to part with them. The problem is, though, that my wife and I live in a studio apartment, and my desk is necessarily right next to the bed alcove. This poses a problem on nights, like tonight, when I want to get some late-night hacking in, and she needs to get some sleep: my typing can rather loud if I get going. Is there a keyboard out there that can give me the mechanical feel of an IBM-101, but without the noise? As an aside note, whatever happened to the Linux CoolKeyboards company?"

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  1. If you find one with tactile feedback.. by sporty · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you ever find one.. let me know if it has the ability to give more violent feedback. Lord knows I'd like to shock people behind their keyboards for the silly or bad questions I get.

    "I put a floppy in the front loading cdrom drive... and I can't get it out."

    *zot*

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  2. Damned noisy keyboards by HaloZero · · Score: 2, Funny

    I know that when I'm at home, my dad can hear my hacking all through the night. He says that I've occasionally woken him up, from down the hall, with the typing. He doesn't hear the soda cans, waterbottle, or sweetbread runs, or the oft curse when something goes "HAHAHA Screw you!" and dies, but that typing. It's maddening.

    Then I get yelled at. (*thud*)

    Hooray for stealth, yet firm keyboards!

    For a while, I had one of those flexi things. Y'know, the rubber ones, with the little like upright foodpad dealies. Worst. Keyboard. Ever. Silent, albeit, but if you pressed the little pad thing that was supposed to resemble a key on a keyboard, the rubber junction just sortof toppled over rather than actually pushing the actuator on the keypad. Freaking annoying.

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  3. Dude! by tswinzig · · Score: 3, Funny

    You're getting a Tablet PC!

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  4. The first story I've seen.... by GusherJizmac · · Score: 5, Funny

    where the title is misspelled! Will slashcode v 8.9 come with spellcheck?

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    1. Re:The first story I've seen.... by Wrexen · · Score: 5, Funny

      So you're new here?

  5. Re:How about some tactile feedback for spelling er by Roadmaster · · Score: 5, Funny

    You want the slashdot editors to die from electrocution don't you?

    thats pretty mean :)