Subj : Re: How do you use unix?
To   : Android8675
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Sat Mar 01 2025 06:50:56

-=> Android8675 wrote to phigan <=-

 An> I can't use cheap keyboards anymore. those flat chicklet dell keyboards
 An> that cost nothing cause my carpal to flare up. Probably the reason I
 An> have bad wrists is because I didn't own a decent keeb until a while
 An> ago.

I still want to find a Focus 2001 keyboard. I miss the clicky but
non-effort keyboards from the '90s. I think they were ALPS key switches
back then. They have the old AT connector, so I'd need to figure some
way to get to USB.

I did some googling around and found this, in black with USB!

https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/xtneip/if_you_know_you_know_black_focus_fk2001/

I did all of my BBSing in the 90s with one of these or a Model M.

 An> If money was no object I could easily spend $500 on one keyboard and be
 An> thrilled as punch. I'd have to have a system to match though, so
 An> that'll never happen. I can't cheap out on something I spend so many
 An> hours a day using.

I started splurging on keyboards, monitors and mice at work - those are
relatively cheap and they're what people's impressions of PCs are mostly
based on. Although, I haven't seen a desktop PC in any of my company's
offices... All laptops.

 
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