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Title: Cool Focus-7200
Post by: chimera15 on Fri, 25 June 2010, 11:07:14

http://cgi.ebay.com/Focus-FK-7200-USB-White-Keyboard-Brand-New-/190409105016?cmd=ViewItem&pt=PCA_Mice_Trackballs&hash=item2c55445e78 (http://cgi.ebay.com/Focus-FK-7200-USB-White-Keyboard-Brand-New-/190409105016?cmd=ViewItem&pt=PCA_Mice_Trackballs&hash=item2c55445e78)

Title: Cool Focus-7200
Post by: Mental Hobbit on Fri, 25 June 2010, 13:14:40

A Focus with Windows keys? Does it still have mechanical switches?

Title: Cool Focus-7200
Post by: ricercar on Fri, 25 June 2010, 15:34:35

Quote from: Mental Hobbit;196335

mechanical switches?

Inquiring minds want to know

Title: Cool Focus-7200
Post by: EverythingIBM on Fri, 25 June 2010, 18:15:56

I think the switches are mechanical... the keys look too high for a rubber dome. Not to mention, you'd need some crazy rubber domes for that spacebar if it was.

Title: Cool Focus-7200
Post by: kishy on Fri, 25 June 2010, 18:18:35

Have we ever seen rubber dome keyboards with LEDs integrated in the keys? It doesn't seem highly feasible to do...

Idea: someone ask seller to pull a key.

Title: Cool Focus-7200
Post by: EverythingIBM on Fri, 25 June 2010, 18:32:53

Quote from: ripster;196436

If EIBM thinks it's mechanical then it's GOTTA be rubber dome.

It CAN'T be a rubber dome. Look at it! Anyone who has used a small sampling of keyboards could tell the difference just by looking at the key height.

Title: Cool Focus-7200
Post by: EverythingIBM on Fri, 25 June 2010, 18:46:33

Quote from: ripster;196445

You need to branch out from your rather narrow view of the computing industry and look at something made by somebody other than IBM.

Plus, I hear a rumor IBM will pull out of the PC computer biz someday and sell it to the communists.  Maybe Burma.

I do... I recently saved a "Certified data" computer from the dump with 64 MB of RAM and a pentium 1 processor.
It's one of the ugliest computers I've ever used and particularly noisy for an old windows 98 computer. The PSU has a crazy fan though.

I also rescued a strange compaq rubberdome that looks like it was trying to be an ALPs... it's seriously one of the strangest things.

Title: Cool Focus-7200
Post by: trievalot on Fri, 25 June 2010, 18:53:18

i got an FK-8200, and its got sliders over rubber domes (i think!)

$10 though....

Title: Cool Focus-7200
Post by: microsoft windows on Fri, 25 June 2010, 18:57:22

Quote from: kishy;196434

Have we ever seen rubber dome keyboards with LEDs integrated in the keys?

Have you ever heard of Crapple?

Title: Cool Focus-7200
Post by: trievalot on Fri, 25 June 2010, 19:01:53

a rubber dome keyboard with LEDs integrated in the keys

Title: Cool Focus-7200
Post by: EverythingIBM on Fri, 25 June 2010, 19:24:37

Quote from: microsoft windows;196460

Have you ever heard of Crapple?

I was actually thinking of them... but they have switches on top of the rubber domes. The lights aren't adjacent to the keys, so, when the key goes up, the light gets dimmer, press the key, it gets brighter etc.

Quote from: ripster;196459

Rubber dome.  I knew it.

Show Image

(http://seriouslulz.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/1236910781222-570x435.jpg)

Hey, it has sliders: which isn't a PURE rubber dome... sliders make the keys higher.

Title: Cool Focus-7200
Post by: ch_123 on Fri, 25 June 2010, 19:27:39

Quote from: kishy;196434

Have we ever seen rubber dome keyboards with LEDs integrated in the keys? It doesn't seem highly feasible to do...

Idea: someone ask seller to pull a key.

I've seen foam and foil switch keyboards with integrated LEDs!

Title: Cool Focus-7200
Post by: microsoft windows on Fri, 25 June 2010, 19:29:24

Crapple doesn't have switches on top of their rubber domes. Their keyboards were just plain junky. Having MacIntrash's inflicted on me for over a decade, I've learned to hate them.

Have any of you all noticed how their keys have that special texture and shade of white that attracts dust like a magnet too? I just don't understand why anybody would want to use such a thing.

Title: Cool Focus-7200
Post by: EverythingIBM on Fri, 25 June 2010, 19:33:42

Quote from: microsoft windows;196479

Crapple doesn't have switches on top of their rubber domes. Their keyboards were just plain junky. Having MacIntrash's inflicted on me for over a decade, I've learned to hate them.

Have any of you all noticed how their keys have that special texture and shade of white that attracts dust like a magnet too? I just don't understand why anybody would want to use such a thing.

The aluminum mac keyboards do use switches... unless I'm wrong. They're certainly something else... lol. don't "THINK", "THINK DIFFERENT".

Yeah, they do get a lot of dust (and twice as much dirt), it's probably the powdery texture of the plastic combined with the white colour.

You should see some of the mice, absolutely filthy.

Title: Cool Focus-7200
Post by: ch_123 on Fri, 25 June 2010, 19:38:40

That's definitely the worst part of those things, they do not hide dirt well...

Title: Cool Focus-7200
Post by: microsoft windows on Fri, 25 June 2010, 19:40:08

The worst part of Crapple keyboards is the fact that they're pieces of ****. The dirt problem is second.

Title: Cool Focus-7200
Post by: ch_123 on Fri, 25 June 2010, 19:42:20

Like your computers so?

Title: Cool Focus-7200
Post by: chimera15 on Fri, 25 June 2010, 22:22:19

Well, someone bought it.

Title: Cool Focus-7200
Post by: EverythingIBM on Fri, 25 June 2010, 22:31:59

Quote from: chimera15;196545

Well, someone bought it.

Webwit!

Title: Cool Focus-7200
Post by: Voixdelion on Sat, 26 June 2010, 21:29:21

I got one of those 7200 usb boards.  It's not the worst one I've used, but it doesn't respond sometimes when something is crashing in an app or OS.  I ended up having to shut down via the button and restart.  Is that cuz it's usb not PS/2? If it weren't for that I might give it a longer audition time to see what it does for me.  I do like the trackball, but the positioning makes me hit the spacebar in attempting to click, so I am not optimistic about it becoming a fave of mine anyway. Before I pick favorites, though I still need to test drive the cherry blues -which I've never sampled-  vs the white Alps on the Focus 3001 I just got. ( I like the way it feels, but don't know if it works yet.  It seems well used but it does have more snap to it than the new 7200 by comparison even so, and I think I might just like it more than my M- more info to come on this as I test it.)  

 I think the thumb manipulation of the trackball is awkward enough to keep me from being overly concerned about the switches since I prefer the M5-1 positioning and button application.  The 7200 is a little bit counter-intuitive for me and I get more typos than with my Model M or the Dell AT101W but it still better than the microsoft wireless keyboard I used pre-Geekhack.

Title: Cool Focus-7200
Post by: microsoft windows on Sun, 27 June 2010, 10:08:02

I'd have to say that IBM made the best trackball keyboards.