Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!cod!mball 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 Lines: 22 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