From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Re 2 button mouse + Inferno
In-Reply-To: <20000925145049.404BC199CC@mail> from "jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com"
 at "Sep 25, 2000 10:50:44 am"
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 16:16:34 +0100
From: Digby Tarvin <digbyt@acm.org>
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> 	You can buy plenty of keyboards with no numeric bit, but they're
> 	not cheap.
> 
> A long time ago we bought a pile of Lexmark 84-key keyboards. There's an
> optional numeric keypad. They are small and pretty reliable (a couple have
> gone bad out of about 40 in more than 5 years). The Lexmark keyboard
> business was bought by Unicomp and the keyboards are still available but,
> as you say, not cheap - $99.
> 
> http://www.pckeyboard.com/surfer.htm
> 

I tried the Unicomp keyboard, but wasn't too keen on the quality
of the keys. It had about as much tactile feedback as a membrane
keyboard. But then again my judgement may be coloured by the
fact that the keyboard they sent me had a fault, and the promised
replacement never turned up :-/

I have been much happier with the offering from
	http://www.pfuca.com/

at US$69.00 they still are quite a bit more expensive than
the desk cluttering models, but still a small part of the
overall system cost, and a good keyboard should last
a lifetime, so I think my fingers are worth more than $20.00
or whatever the cheapies go for....

Regards,
DigbyT
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Digby R. S. Tarvin                                              digbyt@acm.org
http://www.cthulhu.dircon.co.uk