Paul Makepeace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 08:16:01PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Kris Boulez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> > Quoting David Cantrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>> >> On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 09:30:13AM -0400, Mz anathema wrote:
>> >> > Can anyone suggest a good way to recover a soup-soaked keyboard?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Alternatively, just buy a new keyboard.
>> >>
>> > Given the low cost of a decent keyboard ( ~1000 BEF, 25 euro) I'd
>> > suggest bying a new one.
>>
>> At 25 euros I can promise you it won't be a decent keyboard. If it's
>> not really heavy and made by someone who's licensed the IBM buckling
>> spring patent then it's not worth having. (Unless it's a maltron...)
>
> So it has to be an analog keyboard Piers that you spend a four-figure
> sum (e/$/q) on minimum, or the letters just don't come out quite right?
> Does it need gold-plated USB contacts too?
Actually, I have spent a large 3 figure sum on a keyboard; my Maltron,
which I pray will never suffer the ravages of soup; my fingers would
never forgive me.
It's all about the key action, expensive IBM keys just feel *right*.
If I use lesser flat keyboards than the likes of the
IBM/Lexmark/(Can't remember who bought the patent, but they do a
really cool looking DEC vt220 compatible keyboard as well) for any
length of time then I start to get the old tingling fingers and sore
wrist thing that I really don't want to think about.
--
Piers
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a language in
possession of a rich syntax must be in need of a rewrite."
-- Jane Austen?
