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Title: who would type on this
Post by: mike52787 on Wed, 25 May 2016, 21:24:04

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Replacement-Fujinon-E400-Processor-Keyboard-P-N-DK-402E-/381640691679?&_trksid=p2056016.m2518.l4276

Look at the DEEP travel on those switches! Ill pay someone a small fortune to do a typing video on one of these, just dont break your fingers

Title: Re: who would type on this
Post by: Techno Trousers on Wed, 25 May 2016, 21:54:26

Ouch! I think I'd rather just use one of those laser keyboard projectors and drum my fingers on the desk. Do those things even work, BTW?

Title: Re: who would type on this
Post by: fohat.digs on Wed, 25 May 2016, 21:58:47

That might be the type of keyboard that they use in restaurants and industrial areas. I had one for a while and it was indestructible.

Metal domes under multiple mylar layers that can be customized and set to whatever you have in your shop.

Not for fast or easy typing but it would hardly hiccup if you poured a bucket of hot grease on it.

Title: Re: who would type on this
Post by: xtrafrood on Wed, 25 May 2016, 22:03:42

When I was working as a retail photo lab technician there were times when I had to take the rolls of film to be processed at other stores, and I'm pretty sure a few of them had that kind of keyboard (early 2000's). Hell, I even used those when I worked at McDonalds as a teenager. Typing on them was a bit of a chore :-X

Title: Re: who would type on this
Post by: ed_avis on Thu, 26 May 2016, 04:09:11

Hospitals sometimes have this kind of keyboard.

Title: Re: who would type on this
Post by: pr0ximity on Thu, 26 May 2016, 05:14:41

Looks like a diagram of the periodic table. I like it.

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Title: Re: who would type on this
Post by: yomammary on Thu, 26 May 2016, 07:53:08

People who type on their iPhones.

Title: Re: who would type on this
Post by: chyros on Thu, 26 May 2016, 10:25:30

I found a full-travel keyboard recently with switches that are EVEN WORSE than the spring-over-membrane system on my Amstrads. It's so bad it's genuinely unreal. I might review that in a few weeks.

Title: Re: who would type on this
Post by: fohat.digs on Thu, 26 May 2016, 13:13:10

Quote from: ed_avis on Thu, 26 May 2016, 04:09:11

Hospitals sometimes have this kind of keyboard.

Metal dome keyboards have their places.
Impervious and indestructible are not bad attributes.

Title: Re: who would type on this
Post by: mike52787 on Thu, 26 May 2016, 15:45:41

Quote from: chyros on Thu, 26 May 2016, 10:25:30

I found a full-travel keyboard recently with switches that are EVEN WORSE than the spring-over-membrane system on my Amstrads. It's so bad it's genuinely unreal. I might review that in a few weeks.

OOOH I want to see it! I love hearing you review old ****ty boards.

Title: Re: who would type on this
Post by: xtrafrood on Thu, 26 May 2016, 15:57:55

I really REALLY hope the seller dipped that keyboard into some kind of antiseptic :-\

Title: Re: who would type on this
Post by: chyros on Thu, 26 May 2016, 16:06:42

Quote from: mike52787 on Thu, 26 May 2016, 15:45:41

Quote from: chyros on Thu, 26 May 2016, 10:25:30

I found a full-travel keyboard recently with switches that are EVEN WORSE than the spring-over-membrane system on my Amstrads. It's so bad it's genuinely unreal. I might review that in a few weeks.

OOOH I want to see it! I love hearing you review old ****ty boards.

Hahaha will do then xD .

Title: Re: who would type on this
Post by: Elrick on Fri, 27 May 2016, 03:38:16

Quote from: csmertx on Thu, 26 May 2016, 15:57:55

I really REALLY hope the seller dipped that keyboard into some kind of antiseptic :-\

They use these type of keyboards in old slaughterhouses, where input data is required along the line.

You could cover entrails on this keyboard and still type anything you like, in fact it could even be a personal "Dexter" like keyboard, for home usage  8) .

Title: Re: who would type on this
Post by: appleonama on Fri, 27 May 2016, 03:57:52

I have a similar keyboard on an paint mixer computer. I rather use a cheap $2 rubber dome.