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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: y11971alex on Sat, 13 August 2016, 04:40:46
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https://books.google.com/books?id=CT8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT38&lpg=PT38&dq=displaywriter+keyboard+%22Feel%22&source=bl&ots=pUtZfjbbFz&sig=NmxlW7GaepFkUX_NdVNgeQSM-Bc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiL-p-6hb7OAhUDbiYKHbRPD84Q6AEIRTAG#v=onepage&q=displaywriter%20keyboard%20%22Feel%22&f=false
Mr. Malcome Dean of Infodyne Corp. is serious about his keyboards! Displaywriter or bust.
While the Omnikey is not explicitly mentioned, I think Mr. Dean was talking about it. Blue/white Alps = high tech sponge!
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You can tell people were used to a different kind of typing when they consider 70 gf to be "light touch" xD .
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He talked as if IBM stopped making decent keyboards with the Displaywriter.
By 1988 there had been multiple generations of buckling spring keyboards, almost any of which should have been much more satisfying to him than Alps, even if he had to move on to Ms instead of Fs.
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If he thought that BS and alps were ****ty he obviously had never used a compaq portable and experienced the joy that is foam and foil switches :))
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If he thought that BS and alps were ****ty he obviously had never used a compaq portable and experienced the joy that is foam and foil switches
He did not actively condemn buckling springs, and seemed to grudgingly accept the AT, but if his criticisms were about layout, then the plethora of very early layouts should have been a major problem.
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If he thought that BS and alps were ****ty he obviously had never used a compaq portable and experienced the joy that is foam and foil switches
He did not actively condemn buckling springs, and seemed to grudgingly accept the AT, but if his criticisms were about layout, then the plethora of very early layouts should have been a major problem.
If anything I think that the displaywriter layout is much more foreign and hard to get used to than the XT.
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If he thought that BS and alps were ****ty he obviously had never used a compaq portable and experienced the joy that is foam and foil switches
He did not actively condemn buckling springs, and seemed to grudgingly accept the AT, but if his criticisms were about layout, then the plethora of very early layouts should have been a major problem.
If anything I think that the displaywriter layout is much more foreign and hard to get used to than the XT.
This is a recurring theme with layouts actually. People appeared to have begrudged all new layouts, then get used to them, and then complain when that was changed :p .
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If he thought that BS and alps were ****ty he obviously had never used a compaq portable and experienced the joy that is foam and foil switches
He did not actively condemn buckling springs, and seemed to grudgingly accept the AT, but if his criticisms were about layout, then the plethora of very early layouts should have been a major problem.
If anything I think that the displaywriter layout is much more foreign and hard to get used to than the XT.
This is a recurring theme with layouts actually. People appeared to have begrudged all new layouts, then get used to them, and then complain when that was changed :p .
Haha I guess Im not old enough to remember any of this.
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If he thought that BS and alps were ****ty he obviously had never used a compaq portable and experienced the joy that is foam and foil switches
He did not actively condemn buckling springs, and seemed to grudgingly accept the AT, but if his criticisms were about layout, then the plethora of very early layouts should have been a major problem.
If anything I think that the displaywriter layout is much more foreign and hard to get used to than the XT.
This is a recurring theme with layouts actually. People appeared to have begrudged all new layouts, then get used to them, and then complain when that was changed :p .
Haha I guess Im not old enough to remember any of this.
Read of bunch of reviews like this, it's always the same. Everyone and their dog is basically complaining whatever IBM keyboard is out right now isn't the same layout as the previous one. ****ing hilarious if you ask me :p .
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I agree that one can get used to slight variations in layout if spread out over time. Minor layout differences aren't really worth *****ing about.
However, any and all condemnation of buckling spring switches is quite on point, in my view. They are noisy and uncomfortable, and the basis of the ugliest keyboards to ever become a de facto standard. From hell's heart I stab at thee, IBM...