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Nice strategically-placed pussy. The keyboard layout is terrible on account of its misplaced trackball. There's a special hell reserved for people who design k

Nice strategically-placed pussy. The keyboard layout is terrible on account of its misplaced trackball. There's a special hell reserved for people who design keyboards with trackballs below the numpad; that shit needs to be situated either in the middle of the typewriter keys, or directly below the space key(s), in line with the golden ratio and with some space to rest one's wrists.

LargoLasskhyfv 21d ago
It also can't compete against something like https://i.sstatic.net/QMf052nZ.jpg https://i.sstatic.net/QMf052nZ.jpg which is...err was Siemens 'tri-modal'/triple mode for BS2000, SINIX and 'normal' PC-modes.
- linohh 21d ago
  I almost forgot how shitty the Siemens keyboards were.
  - LargoLasskhyfv 20d ago
    Hrrm. Depends on what you mean by shitty? The looks? The typing feel and sound? I actually quite liked some of them, having used them for years. Another thing is that they were made according to ergonomic guidelines, which were mandatory to fulfill for many of their customers(Government, (former) government Telcos, and the likes). So even if they were rubberdomed, they weren't absolute trash. They could also be had in slightly different sizes, if you knew how to navigate the insanely bizarre ordering options, or knew about them in the first place, and had access. (Vee don't do fkn enduserz! Vee deal wiff big biz only! Go avay!) That wasn't so 'ergonomic' at all ;-> This still applies to more or less enshittyfied contemporary stuff, made by Cherry, Logitech, Dell, Fujitsu, Lenovo, whomever. Don't be so snobbish, Gamerlamer!
- NetOpWibby 20d ago
  That looks atrocious
theodric 21d ago
It's a rack KVM keyboard and constrained thereby. The remainder was a heavy-duty shelf-drawer and a 14" CRT monitor. I decom'd a few of these in a very, very legacy facility a few years ago. They're decent keyboards.
NetOpWibby 20d ago
Funny thing is, my cat was actually out of shot but he pulled himself closer to me (while laying on his side) so I just kept him in, haha!

LargoLasskhyfv 21d ago

It also can't compete against something like https://i.sstatic.net/QMf052nZ.jpg https://i.sstatic.net/QMf052nZ.jpg which is...err was Siemens 'tri-modal'/triple mode for BS2000, SINIX and 'normal' PC-modes.

linohh 21d ago
I almost forgot how shitty the Siemens keyboards were.
- LargoLasskhyfv 20d ago
  Hrrm. Depends on what you mean by shitty? The looks? The typing feel and sound? I actually quite liked some of them, having used them for years. Another thing is that they were made according to ergonomic guidelines, which were mandatory to fulfill for many of their customers(Government, (former) government Telcos, and the likes). So even if they were rubberdomed, they weren't absolute trash. They could also be had in slightly different sizes, if you knew how to navigate the insanely bizarre ordering options, or knew about them in the first place, and had access. (Vee don't do fkn enduserz! Vee deal wiff big biz only! Go avay!) That wasn't so 'ergonomic' at all ;-> This still applies to more or less enshittyfied contemporary stuff, made by Cherry, Logitech, Dell, Fujitsu, Lenovo, whomever. Don't be so snobbish, Gamerlamer!
NetOpWibby 20d ago
That looks atrocious

theodric 21d ago

It's a rack KVM keyboard and constrained thereby. The remainder was a heavy-duty shelf-drawer and a 14" CRT monitor. I decom'd a few of these in a very, very legacy facility a few years ago. They're decent keyboards.

NetOpWibby 20d ago

Funny thing is, my cat was actually out of shot but he pulled himself closer to me (while laying on his side) so I just kept him in, haha!