TMI and DMI, people!
I'm all for a calendar with keyboards.
I don't mind if the model is Richard Stallman even, as long as the keyboards are sexy ...
I think that the calendar should include:
- Keyboards that a large portion of the membership think look good.
- Keyboards that are special in some way.
I would like to nominate:
Beautiful keyboards: Sun Type 5 (awful to type on, but it sure looks better than most), the keyboard in Toshiba T5200 laptop (grey keys, Cherry blue switches btw)
Ergonomic keyboards: IBM M15, µTron, Maltron, Kinesis, Datahand
Significant, beautiful vintage keyboards: Any IBM beam-spring keyboard, Symbolics "Space Cadet" keyboard, VT100 terminal keyboard.
Sexy technology: Realforce 101.
Keyboards that I don't want in the calendar
- Any keyboard from Apple. I have only horrid memories from the older ones, and the newer ones are rubber domes.
- Anything by Microsoft. The keys feel horrible, and the company is definitely not sexy.
- IBM Model M, Dell AT101W, because they are too common and therefore not sexy.
- Any IBM 122 key keyboard, because they are so ugly. Sorry.