On Sun, August 30, 2015 8:49 pm, Martin Read wrote: > Cherry still *are* (or at some point resumed) making mechanical > keyswitches with a rated life in the tens of millions, and the Internet is > full of mail-order vendors selling keyboards (from several different > manufacturers) built with those Cherry keyswitches.
How much do those things cost? Now that a keyboard can be had for $10 or $15, is it better to pay $150 or even $250 for a quality keyboard, or replace a $15 keyboard every year or even every six months? And in our present Window$-dominated, rodent-oriented, game-addicted and generally-lliterate society, is there anyone who types more than a few dozen keystrokes a day for the purpose of intelligent conversation -- other than subscribers to a mail list such as this, and the authors of pulp fiction? (And no, I do not consider messages transmitted by "texting" or "twitter" to be intelligent conversation.) RLH
