Interesting (well, interesting if you're into that kind of thing) discussion raging at Bobbi's regarding keyboards, clickety, and caps lock, desirability thereof.
I myself am a clickety-keyboard aficianado from way back, probably going clear back to the manual typewriters I learned on in junior high school.* The first IBM computer I worked with had the Model M keyboard, and I managed to snatch one of those off of a junk pile years ago and used it until the 5-pin DIN connector was not only obsolete, but downright paleolithic and not working worth a damn no matter how hard I tried to make it work with adapters and suchlike.
I then wandered through the wilderness of keyboards until I found another IBM clickety, whose model and provenance I don't recall. But it was a PS/2 interface, so that worked nicely for a long time. Finally it became unpredictably erratic and I had to consign it to the junk pile.
I had some other keyboards, notably Dells (we had a shitetonne of them at work, so I'd grab another one every now and then when the one I had started to crap out) but the tactile response was suckful. They felt like typing through a bowl of mush.
The last time one died on me, I said to hell with this, I'm going to find a clickety keyboard. And I did. (Mandatory FCC notice: I am receiving no compensation for this.) Basically I bought this, and I say "basically" because it's the same keyboard but they seem to have changed the printing on the key caps since I bought mine.
It has the backslash key where God intended. I'd prefer a two-row Return key but I'll live with what I've got. And otherwise everything is where it's supposed to be, not where some jackanapes has decided it would be more "ergonomically" correct. Also it has a built-in two-port USB hub, so I can hook my mouse into it instead of running the cable all the way back to the machine. (This is good because I normally have a tonne-o-crap sitting on the desk between the keyboard and the monitors, and if I'm not careful I end up not being able to move the mouse because the cable has pounds of stuff lying on it. Yes, I am a slob. Get over it. A clean desk is the mark of a sick mind.)
And it is clickety. My God is it clickety. It has the Cherry MX Blue switches and they are verra nice.
In opposition to this is the keyboard that came with the Dell I bought recently for one of my Masonic organizations. I was typing on it yesterday and was making all kinds of typos, and finally said, "I can't deal with this piece of mush anymore." So I guess I'm in the market for another Das Keyboard for down there.
Oh, and the CAPS LOCK key? Hate it. Disabled it.
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* 8th grade mandatory typing class. Mrs. Brown. OMG.
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