The 10 Worst PC Keyboards of All Time 612
Kabz found the 10 Worst PC Keyboards of all time which leads off with the Commodore 64 and takes a trip through PCjr country. Might trigger some nostalgia, or some sort of flashback wrist strain.
Apparently... (Score:4, Insightful)
How about the best (Score:3, Insightful)
like a jack hammer while typing on them...
Best keyboard ever made!
Re:Apparently... (Score:3, Insightful)
What I find odd is that Apple's newest keyboard is just a modern rehash of the IBM PCjr chicklet design, and yet nobody I've talked to has made big complaints about it. Honestly, the thing is worse than a rollup USB pocket keyboard, worse than those little laser-on-the-table keyboards, worse than typing through one of those plastic grease-shield membranes on a cash register, and yet, because it's done by Apple, it's gotten a free ticket to reinvent the chicklet without an uproar.
What about the early Sinclairs? (Score:1, Insightful)
Loved my C64 warts and all.
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Like the list... Hate the page! (Score:4, Insightful)
I'm a Mac fan but...... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Well... (Score:5, Insightful)
Insert - I've never had a use for "write over mode." Has anyone?
Windows - Almost useless, squeezed between useful keys. Fortunately my Linux systems ignore this key.
Menu - I'll just right-click, thanks.
Num lock - Why won't this go away? Why do I need a way for my numeric keypad stop to working? Are the arrow keys hard to find?
-Jon
Can also be used as a weapon. (Score:5, Insightful)
Amen brother. I can't use any other keyboard. When you've hit a key on a model M, baby you KNOW you've hit a key. There's just neevr any question. It takes up too much space on a desk? Oh. 1) Tough 2) So? 3) get a bigger desk ya pansy.
Plus they're $2 in thrift shops. Hell, sometimes if I'm in some funky computer store and see one tucked away and ask they'll often as not say "it's too old to be useful just take it". Yeah baby, score.
Plus you can take them apart eight ways from sunday and they're nearly impossible to kill. And how many other 25 year old computer products are still usefull today?
Come to think of it my car and microwave are also 25 years old and better than any of the crap found new today.
Huh, they really were the good old days.
I do take the caps lock key off though. It's annoying to HIT IT INSTEAD OF TAB.
Re:Full text of article (Score:2, Insightful)
a) The keyboard is a monster. Just forget about having desk space.
b) The function keys aren't grouped in the usual sets of 4, so the correct key is harder to locate.
c) The special keys above the function keys are largely useless, and don't always work
d) The 'Sleep' key is large, raised, and right on the corner of the keyboard. What were they thinking? Disabling this key is essentially required to use the keyboard.
Apple white G5 keyboard (Score:3, Insightful)
The white keyboard coming with the first generation G5 Power Mac was the worst I've ever used. It had hardly any space between the keys, and I constantly pressed more than one key. Apart from that, it was super elegant and didn't have any cover. So huge amounts of dust, dirt and food collected over they years. And as with many things coming from Apple, it was almost impossible to open up and clean.
While the C64 keyboard was somewhat unpleasant to use, it didn't have any of these problems.
Re:My first computer was there (Score:0, Insightful)
I gave up on it and went back to their prior version that is famous for collecting every crumb that gets near it. And it suffers from sticky keys. It sucks when style is the only criteria for a keyboard these days. I'm old-school in this regard and I'am most proficient on the old IBM Model M.
Re:Well... (Score:5, Insightful)
You can bind it to something useful like META.
Menu - I'll just right-click, thanks.
And take your hands off the keyboard?
Num lock - Why won't this go away? Why do I need a way for my numeric keypad stop to working? Are the arrow keys hard to find?
How do you move diagonally with the arrow keys?
Re:Well... (Score:3, Insightful)
I agree that it is easy to shoot yourself in the head with Vim.
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