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This one: http://www.northgate-keyboard-repair.com/ultra.jpg http://www.northgate-keyboard-repair.com/ultra.jpg But other than a lucky ebay listing, you won't

by pwg 6y ago

This one: http://www.northgate-keyboard-repair.com/ultra.jpg http://www.northgate-keyboard-repair.com/ultra.jpg But other than a lucky ebay listing, you won't easily find one for sale. Like: proper mechanical key-switches with proper travel for touch typing. Dislike: nothing (which should be evident given that the one I'm presently typing on was purchased sometime about Oct-Nov of 1991).

exebook 6y ago
Do you really use the numeric keypad? I have an impression, probably wrong one, that they are only used by accountants and take too much space on the table.
- pwg 6y ago
  If I'm entering a lot of numbers, yes. If I'm just typing in a few digits (say the number code for an address) not so much.
- LorenPechtel 6y ago
  I'm not the guy you're responding to but I use the very same keyboard. I don't use the keypad a lot, but when I'm typing a bunch of numbers I do. As far as I'm concerned it has yet to be matched, let alone beat. These days nobody puts the function keys on the left--I can reliably touch-type function keys on the left, I can't reliably touch-type function keys on top. Also, the ability to switch around ctrl/alt/caps-lock is very nice. I might use caps lock once a year, putting it down by the space bar doesn't matter. Ctrl and Alt I use a lot, they're much easier to touch-type in the shifted positions. Please, somebody, reincarnate the king!!
  - pwg 6y ago
    Ah, I forgot the ability to, in the keyboard itself, swap the left control and caps lock key by flipping a DIP switch. I set mine that way back in 1991 when I first bought it, and it has remained that way since. And Northgate supplied a key puller, and two alternate keycaps, so that when one flipped the DIP switch, one could also swap the keycaps so they were actually properly labeled for their function.

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This one: http://www.northgate-keyboard-repair.com/ultra.jpg http://www.northgate-keyboard-repair.com/ultra.jpg But other than a lucky ebay listing, you won't

by pwg 6y ago

exebook 6y ago
Do you really use the numeric keypad? I have an impression, probably wrong one, that they are only used by accountants and take too much space on the table.
- pwg 6y ago
  If I'm entering a lot of numbers, yes. If I'm just typing in a few digits (say the number code for an address) not so much.
- LorenPechtel 6y ago
  I'm not the guy you're responding to but I use the very same keyboard. I don't use the keypad a lot, but when I'm typing a bunch of numbers I do. As far as I'm concerned it has yet to be matched, let alone beat. These days nobody puts the function keys on the left--I can reliably touch-type function keys on the left, I can't reliably touch-type function keys on top. Also, the ability to switch around ctrl/alt/caps-lock is very nice. I might use caps lock once a year, putting it down by the space bar doesn't matter. Ctrl and Alt I use a lot, they're much easier to touch-type in the shifted positions. Please, somebody, reincarnate the king!!
  - pwg 6y ago
    Ah, I forgot the ability to, in the keyboard itself, swap the left control and caps lock key by flipping a DIP switch. I set mine that way back in 1991 when I first bought it, and it has remained that way since. And Northgate supplied a key puller, and two alternate keycaps, so that when one flipped the DIP switch, one could also swap the keycaps so they were actually properly labeled for their function.