Re: [OT] ergonomic setups
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On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 07:21:08PM +0100, Pigeon wrote:
> Where from? The only genuine IBM clicky keyboard I've seen for ages
> and ages and ages is the one I'm typing this on, which I pulled out of
> a skip... (Thank you, Lord, for skips.)
I'm a huge fan of the IBM M series keyboards from the 1980s as well.
Bought mine for US$5 in 1997 dollars (given our crappy economy and
free-falling dollar, more like $8 or $9 now against the Euro or $7 to
$8 against the Canadian Dollar).
I've noticed that people who work on computers all the time didn't
really start developing the kinds of screwed up ergonomic problems
until the M Series keyboards stopped being the most prevelant thing
out there. It has a nice, solid key feedback and the right amount of
resistance in the keys. You know when you pressed them, and it's hard
to accidentally hit them, which is far more than I can say for the
104-key Gateway 7001049 keyboard I have at work. I hate the POS, it
slows me down badly and doesn't give good key feedback, so it's kind
of hard to type on for long periods of time.
Why IBM dropped the M series is beyond me, about the only thing I can
really blame IBM for was the M series started the fad for
manufacturers to put props on the back edge of keyboards, which
encourages your wrists to go into the least ergonomic position
possible, and one that I don't think anybody would willingly put their
wrists in in any other context. I'm a firm believer that the only
line of ergonomic keyboards ever made was the M series.
I myself and everybody I regularly talk to tend to find keyboards that
are flat as possible, or tipping a little bit *away* from the user is
way easier on the wrists.
I mostly hate the MS "natural" keyboards with a purple passion. Yeah,
they have a nice angle that keeps your wrists fairly nice and straight
horizontally, but the steep angle of the damn things tend to encourage
you to bend your wrists backwards, which is A Bad Thing. There's a
reason wrists don't have much travel in that direction, nature did *not*
design human paws to bend backwards, much less for extended periods.
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