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From: mball@cod.NOSC.MIL (Michael S. Ball)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: keyboards (was Re: Don't Bash Suns)
Keywords: keyboards
Message-ID: <1222@cod.NOSC.MIL>
Date: 21 Sep 88 03:47:36 GMT
References: <358@island.uu.net> <626@mace.cc.purdue.edu> <4210@thorin.cs.unc.edu> <3498@ihlpe.ATT.COM> <288@wucs1.wustl.edu> <452@quintus.UUCP>
Reply-To: mball@cod.nosc.mil.UUCP (Michael S. Ball)
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
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In article <452@quintus.UUCP> ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>In article <288@wucs1.wustl.edu> jps@wucs1.UUCP (James Sterbenz) writes:
>>BTW, what do people think of the SUN mechanically?  When we got ours,
>>I was suprised at how cheap the keyboard felt, kind of like on a 
>>PCjr.
>
>_Which_ Sun?  The Sun-2, Sun-3, and Sun-386i have different keyboards.
>The one on the Sun-3 is the nicest keyboard I have ever used, bar none.
>(I have used several dozen types of terminals, and type moderately fast.)

My how opinions do vary.  I found the Sun-3 keyboard to be one of the worse
I have ever used.  The angle is wrong, it has no tactile clue for location
of the home keys, and no "over-center" feel at all.  It was also the only
keyboard I have ever used that made my arms sore.  I assumed the latter was
some problem in setup until I talked with some others who had the same
problems with it that I did.

It just shows that keyboard feel is very personal.  I think the best I
have ever used is a datadesk turbo 101 on my PC clone.

-Mike Ball-
TauMetric Corporation