Re: OT: clicky keyboards
On 10/12/2007, Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote:
> and the click *exactly* coincides with the letter being recognised by
> the machine. There is no need to bottom out one of this keyboards. On
> a modern keyboard, try *very* slowly pressing a key while watching the
> screen. You can get the key to "click" without causing an event. That
> means that it you are touch typing, you are relying on the letter
> showing on the screen to determine when to stop pressing the key
> instead of relying on the tactile feedback.
My Dell Inspiron laptop, like most laptops, registers the key before
it passes the tactile bump. Also, I just tried your suggestion on a
three day old Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop 700 keyboard, and I
got the letter before the bump.
What I mean by 'bump' is that both of these keyboards bottom out, but
one must get over a 'hill' of pressure to do so. So once the key has
descended, say X distance, then it is assured to also get to Y (X<Y).
The key register distance seems to be between X and Y.
> The commodore keyboard pretty much sucked, I'm sad to admit as I still
> love my old commodore... :(
As bad as the C64 was, I loved the keyboard on the C128. Learned BASIC
on it :) Wow, I'd like to play Starglider again...
Dotan Cohen
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
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