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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: stickemup on Tue, 20 July 2010, 10:26:41
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I wrote a small novella about the grueling decison making of buying a keyboard, which was all lost by the auto-timed logout. Oh well, I'll take it as a cue to be succint.
After much deliberation I purchased a cheap compaq brownie from ebay (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180535030021) for my gaming needs (which my kids can use too without me grieving them over spilled milk), and a Flico Tenkeyless blue cherry board (http://elitekeyboards.com/products.php?sub=filco_keyboards,majestouch_87key&pid=fkbn87mceb) for everything more serious.
I wanted one board for all, but finally realized that compromises on the typing board would probably be the most regretted.
I am planning on using these both with my mac pro 8 core pc, so please let me know if there's some issue I hadn't considered (other than a usb/ps2 adaptor).
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Your kids spilled milk on your keyboards?
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I can't recommend spilling milk inside a mechanical keyboard.
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Is there some easy way under Mac OS X to map some key to be the eject button?
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My younger daughter has destroyed at least two keyboards by spilling into them. Luckily they were cheap, but I was running out of garbage spares. So, I gave her the rubber rollup waterproof my wife bought a couple years ago as a curiosity.
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I sure hope your daughter doesn't use laptops.
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My younger daughter has destroyed at least two keyboards by spilling into them. Luckily they were cheap, but I was running out of garbage spares. So, I gave her the rubber rollup waterproof my wife bought a couple years ago as a curiosity.
The love of a father for his daughter is very strong. My daughter is probably the only person in the world who can break my Topre keyboard and still get away with it :-)
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Is there some easy way under Mac OS X to map some key to be the eject button?
There's no way to map that key I know of, but you can just go to /System/Library/CoreServices/ and double click on eject.menu which
will put an eject button in your menu bar. It will stay up there (by the network monitor, clock, etc, following reboot.
My younger daughter has destroyed at least two keyboards by spilling into them. Luckily they were cheap, but I was running out of garbage spares. So, I gave her the rubber rollup waterproof my wife bought a couple years ago as a curiosity.
Such were the fate of my final two apple extended keyboards, which left me at the mercy of the modern apple bastardized-notebook style keyboard that I loathe.
I've added a deck legend ice (with linear switches) for my gaming board. Between that and the Filco cherry-blue (arriving today, yes!), I should be set.
FWIW - now having tried the brown cherry switches, I wish they just used them in game boards. They seem to me to be ideal. Deck doesn't make such a board... and I admit I am a sucker for backlights. I wrote off the tactile board because putting black springs in a brown switch, from all I've read, seems a step backwards. They should've done the opposite and gone with the cherry reds. Maybe that will be my first big kb project, to make the deck a cherry red backlit board.
I am thinking of just getting the $10 cheapies from ebay for the kids.