I don't know what Wallstreet and Clams have to do with one another, but I
believe that 1400 is thestreet # for the WH.
--- On Mon, 9/14/09, Britt Dodd <brittman...@gmail.com> wrote:
From: Britt Dodd <brittman...@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Wallstreet
To: vintage-macs@googlegroups.com
Date: Monday, September 14, 2009, 4:14 PM
The 1400 is different from both the Pismo and the Wallstreet. Wallstreet and
the Pismo have "alike-ish" keyboards, while the 1400 has the best keyboard I
have ever used on a laptop -- I own 14 laptops now, and have used many more in
the past.
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 6:27 PM, James Fraser
<wheresthatistanbul-pcil...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hello,
--- On Mon, 9/14/09, Susan Platter <sbplat...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> I do have a quarrel with the right-hand Shift key on this
> two-year-old Intel iMac, as it sticks sometimes; it's the
> length of the key which does not seem properly supported underneath.
So as an old-school typist, do you prefer keyboards with a long key travel?
One of the beauties of the old manual typewriter keyboard was the long key
travel. As someone who is familiar with those, and with Apple's trusty old ADB
keyboards, it's exasperating how short the key travel on Apple's keyboards has
gotten as the keyswitch mechanisms have gotten cheaper and cheaper. :/
I'm not convinced that Apple's newer keyboards are good for your hands
long-term, as, between the short key travel and lack of tactile feedback, you
end up really mashing down on the keys. With the comparatively long key travel
and tactile feedback offered by the Alps keyswitch mechanism on the old ADB
keyboards, you didn't have to mash down on the keys.
> Yes, I've looked at ergonomic ones generally but, as you say, they are
> very expensive.
Are you familiar with the IBM Model M keyboard? It's about as close as you can
hope to get to an old-school typing experience that's kind to your hands.
My Pismo supposedly has one of the better laptop keyboards, but all my typing
is done on it using a Model M coupled with a PS/2 to USB adapter. The catch is
that the Model M's key mechanism is not quiet, and touch typists can make quite
a bit of racket as their hands dance across the keys. :)
But I mention this because the buckling-spring mechanism that's exclusive to
the Model M has found favor among old-school typists. People who type for a
living like professional secretaries and medical transcriptionists strongly
prefer it. And while I have plenty of ADB Apple keyboards, and love them all,
I have to say that they are *almost,* but not quite, as good as my Model M.
However, if you don't happen to have the luxury of an enclosed office and/or a
tolerant significant other, you may want to look into the possibility of
picking up, say, an old Apple Extended keyboard and use that in conjunction
with an iMate ADB-USB adapter. The Apple Extended offers better feedback than
modern keyboards and, because it uses an Alps rather than a buckling-spring
mechansim, is much quieter. I believe the iMate will work through 10.4, but
support seems to have ended with 10.5. :(
Anyway, just an idea. [shrugs]
Best,
James Fraser
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