[Leica] Re: Touch typing keyboards

[faneuil at gmail.com (Eric Korenman)]

try deck keyboards. pips, clack and lighted!
expensive, but the best keyboard I have used and most like the old clacky PC
keyboards.
It is on our 'public' computer in our kitchen and it seems to sell itself
when guests use it.
http://www.deckkeyboards.com/catalog/product_deck_ice.php?cPath=0_21&products_id=30

BTW - you can turn the glow up / down or off.

Eric



On 4/11/06, Gary Todoroff <datamaster@northcoastphotos.com> wrote:
>
> David, Jim, Larry - keyboards may seem OT, but are still a good lesson in
> ergonomics, which certainly applies to the Leica M - one of the most
> ergonomic devices ever built.
>
> As I type, making a beautiful racket on my 1984 IBM keyboard, I can look
> down and see the little "pips" on the F and J keys, used by many new
> keyboards as well. Problem is, my *fingers* don't notice those tiny
> things,
> whereas they literally *fell* into the old dished-in keys.
>
> Thanks for reading and responding to my comments about ergonomics on the
> blog. I feel that the word "ergonomics" gets a lot of lip-service these
> days, but the concept received much more careful analysis in past years
> when
> ergonomics wasn't even in the vernacular. Most keyboards today feel like
> mush.
>
> Some DSLR menus turn your brain to mush.
>
> Gary Todoroff
> Tree LUGger
> www.northcoastphotos.com
>
> > -----Original Message-----
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> > g]On Behalf Of lrzeitlin@optonline.net>
> >
> > Gary writes (Lympa blog)
> >
> > <<I've always wondered at how technology makes such huge leaps
> > over amazing distances and forgets the
> > toothbrush. Computer keyboards are another example of a high
> > level of ergonomics at the brochure level.
> > Thirty years ago, IBM keypunch machines had a feature that is now
> > lost - the "F" and "J homekeys were
> > dished in deeper than the other keys. When PC keyboards came out,
> > my fingers were lost, and I did not
> > know why. Looking carefully at the old keyboards, I discovered
> > that without conscious effort, my fingers
> > naturally fell into the home keys. Why would such a useful
> > feature completely disappear from all modern
> > keyboards?>>
> >
> > Gary,
> >
> > Apple computer keyboards have little pips on the home keys.
> > Obviously some people at Apple still touch type.
> > Stangely enough, the newer keyboards for the PPC and MacIntels
> > have the pips on the F and J keys, while
> > the older keyboards have the pips on the D and K keys.
> >
> > Larry Z
> >
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