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Offline mike52787

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who would type on this
« 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

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Re: who would type on this
« Reply #1 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?

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Re: who would type on this
« Reply #2 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.
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Re: who would type on this
« Reply #3 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
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Offline ed_avis

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Re: who would type on this
« Reply #4 on: Thu, 26 May 2016, 04:09:11 »
Hospitals sometimes have this kind of keyboard.

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Re: who would type on this
« Reply #5 on: Thu, 26 May 2016, 05:14:41 »
Looks like a diagram of the periodic table. I like it.

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Re: who would type on this
« Reply #6 on: Thu, 26 May 2016, 07:53:08 »
People who type on their iPhones.
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Re: who would type on this
« Reply #7 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.
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Re: who would type on this
« Reply #8 on: Thu, 26 May 2016, 13:13:10 »
Hospitals sometimes have this kind of keyboard.

Metal dome keyboards have their places.
Impervious and indestructible are not bad attributes.
"However, even though I was born in the Mesozoic, I do know what anyone who wants to reach out to young people should say: Billionaires took your money. They took your chance to buy a home. They took your chance at a good education. They stole your opportunities. Billionaires took the things you want in life. If you really want those things, you have to take them back.
That's the message. That's the whole message. Say that every day, not just to reach America's frustrated young white men, but people of every age, race, and gender.
Late-stage capitalism is a wealth-concentration engine, focused on vacuuming up every dollar and putting it in as few hands as possible. Republicans are helping that vacuum suck.
How does a tiny fraction of the population get away with this? They do it by dividing the other 99% of Americans against themselves."
- Marc Sumner 2025-05-30

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Re: who would type on this
« Reply #9 on: Thu, 26 May 2016, 15:45:41 »
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.

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Re: who would type on this
« Reply #10 on: Thu, 26 May 2016, 15:57:55 »
I really REALLY hope the seller dipped that keyboard into some kind of antiseptic :-\
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Re: who would type on this
« Reply #11 on: Thu, 26 May 2016, 16:06:42 »
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 .
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Re: who would type on this
« Reply #12 on: Fri, 27 May 2016, 03:38:16 »
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) .

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Re: who would type on this
« Reply #13 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.