Silent Keyboards for Silent PCs?

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Silent Keyboards for Silent PCs?

Posted by Cliff on Saturday December 20, 2003 @05:18AM from the well-if-the-mice-can-be-quiet... dept.

Kethinov asks: "Following up on the question asked in this story, I have a similar problem as he did except my late night coding (typing) sessions, not my clicking, seem to generating excess noise for the people I'm living with. I, as he did, checked out this possible solution, but to be honest, I can't type on anything but a standard-layout keyboard. Now, I too can search Google, but just looking at a possible solution doesn't help much. Does anyone on Slashdot have experience in this matter, from which I could better narrow my choices?"

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Easy answer. by DAldredge · 2003-12-20 05:21 · Score: 4, Funny

IBM Model M!
1. Re:Easy answer. by xneilj · 2003-12-20 05:23 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  LOL :) A few weeks of using a model M around people and they'll think your old keyboard IS quiet after all ;)
  
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2. Re:Easy answer. by lafiel · 2003-12-20 05:30 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  This is the keyboard that's so heavy and thick you can use it defensively like a bat, isn't it? =)
3. Re:Easy answer. by unitron · 2003-12-20 13:46 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  "Actually, I wonder if you could engineer the springs and such in the Model M keys to only make ultrasonic noise?"
  If you think the folks around you are complaining about noise now, wait 'til every dog for miles around goes nuts whenever you touch the keys. :-)
  
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Perfect Solution by cheezus · 2003-12-20 06:16 · Score: 3, Funny

Get some dictation software and whisper to it.

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Re:Virtually indestructible keyboard by paul248 · 2003-12-20 07:23 · Score: 3, Funny

I saw that keyboard once at a CompUSA, but it was broken.
Re:Virtually indestructible keyboard by davey_darling · 2003-12-20 08:28 · Score: 5, Funny

The Virtually Indestructible keyboard comes with a 90 day warranty.
Hardly instills confidence in the product, does it?
change your roommate by ghettoreb · 2003-12-20 11:14 · Score: 4, Funny

to me, there's a clear solution to your problem:

if you live with a roommate (or gf, etc) who minds the noise you make with your keyboard during late night coding, then the obvious thing to do is to change your roommate or gf, much more so than go with drastic actions like changing your keyboard.

hope this helps