Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/04/12

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Touch typing keyboards
From: ricc at mindspring.com (Ric Carter)
Date: Wed Apr 12 15:49:02 2006
References: <20060411153822.GA2089@panix.com> <3.0.2.32.20060411213146.026c8920@pop.infionline.net> <m2slojim37.fsf@pobox.com> <0B5E4E92B07F737BB872729A@hindolveston.reid.org> <3c0e1b0437e19f844e0f316a8cb8591b@woh.rr.com>

The PowerBooks are said to have better keyboard. One of the reasons  
to upgrade from iBook. I like mine on the 12-inch PB very much.

Your problem sounds like stray thumb strikes on the keypad.

Ric Carter
http://gallery.leica-users.org/Passing-Fancies



On Apr 12, 2006, at 6:20 PM, Rob McClure wrote:

> Brian,
>
> You must be on an Apple desktop because the keyboard of my iBook G  
> is the worst I have ever used.  When I try to type fast (or slow  
> for that matter), the curser bounces all over the place landing in  
> odd places elsewhere in the text.  I love the rest of the machine  
> too much to part with it.
>
> Regards,
>
> Rob McClure
> On Apr 11, 2006, at 11:14 PM, Brian Reid wrote:
>
>> I can type 120 to 140 words per minute in a proper chair with a  
>> good keyboard.
>> When I worked at  Digital Equipment Corporation in the 1990s I had  
>> their keyboard people hand-make me a custom keyboard to my  
>> specifications. I like to believe I know something about keyboards.
>>
>> IBM keyboards are very good, but the very best keyboards ever made  
>> were made by Facit, in Sweden, for their electric typewriters. In  
>> the early days of interactive computing, Facit would sell you a  
>> typewriter that had been reconfigured to work like a teletype.  
>> There were binary codes drilled in the keys, and as each swung  
>> towards the paper, a photocell noted the sequence of holes and  
>> transmitted the appropriate character. I used to be able to do 150  
>> words per minute on a Facit.
>>
>> These days I use the standard Apple keyboard, which isn't bad.
>>
>>
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Replies: Reply from rdcb37 at dodo.com.au (Rick Dykstra) ([Leica] Re: Touch typing keyboards)
In reply to: Message from shino at panix.com (Rei Shinozuka) ([Leica] Re: Touch typing keyboards)
Message from msmall at infionline.net (Marc James Small) ([Leica] Re: Touch typing keyboards)
Message from dcm at pobox.com (David C Mason) ([Leica] Re: Touch typing keyboards)
Message from reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid) ([Leica] Re: Touch typing keyboards)
Message from rmcclure2 at woh.rr.com (Rob McClure) ([Leica] Re: Touch typing keyboards)