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Looks like a Logitech G19 to me. I wouldn't have thought Knuth would have a gaming keyboard, let alone one with a screen. EDIT: I think the other comment is co

• MagicPropmaker 8y ago
  I'm an old-school programmer (though not as old as Knuth) and I use a gaming keyboard. I like the "click click" and full travel and the new "buckle spring" keyboards I can get aren't as good as the cherry clicky ones. I learned to type on a a mechanical typewriter in High School and in college punched programs on keypunch machines. A lot of us old-timers use gaming keyboards.
  • devereaux 8y ago
    Gaming keyboard also have extra keys, which you can map to macro or other things you find useful. I usually remap the control keys to act as a modifier for Unicode characters (as Caps and Enter are my "Control" keys) but that's not much. I need more keys. I have 2 keys to switch to the next/previous tab, in browsers, consoles and programming environments- the same keys can switch virtual desktop with a modifier. I also have a key to invert my screen (black on white vs white on black), a key to either switch to a terminal doing a ssh to a specific server or spawn a terminal and start that ssh, etc. It takes some time but offer greater productivity. I dislike the ticking of mechanical keyboard, and I really prefer "chiclets" keyboard as they generally require less force to be applied, but I would consider a mechanical keyboard if only for the extra keys.