Author Topic: Purchased FKN87MC/EB... & cheap brownie (Read 2361 times)

stickemup · « **on:** Tue, 20 July 2010, 10:26:41 »

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 for my gaming needs (which my kids can use too without me grieving them over spilled milk), and a Flico Tenkeyless blue cherry board 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).

1839cc · « **Reply #1 on:** Wed, 21 July 2010, 23:38:06 »

Your kids spilled milk on your keyboards?

spolia optima · « **Reply #2 on:** Wed, 21 July 2010, 23:57:08 »

I can't recommend spilling milk inside a mechanical keyboard.

ch_123 · « **Reply #3 on:** Thu, 22 July 2010, 05:58:56 »

Is there some easy way under Mac OS X to map some key to be the eject button?

Shawn Stanford · « **Reply #4 on:** Thu, 22 July 2010, 07:24:14 »

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.

microsoft windows · « **Reply #5 on:** Thu, 22 July 2010, 07:26:16 »

I sure hope your daughter doesn't use laptops.

patrickgeekhack · « **Reply #6 on:** Thu, 22 July 2010, 10:18:22 »

Quote from: Shawn Stanford;205220

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 :-)

stickemup · « **Reply #7 on:** Fri, 23 July 2010, 13:22:12 »

Quote from: ch_123;205204

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.

Quote from: Shawn Stanford;205220

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.

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