Funny thing a few years back (well several years) when the natural keyboards came out I handed them out to several of the employees at the City where I was the IT director and I couldn't get them to try them long enough. Then I put one on my desk and it lasted less than a couple of days. Later about two weeks I decided I had better give it a chance if I wanted the other employees to try it so I kept at it for at least a couple of weeks. By the end, you couldn't take it away from me. It does make a difference, and one I am not willing at this point to give up. When I travel I get used to my laptop but always glad to get back home to my full natural keyboard.
Tim

>Optimus Maximus Ultra Configurable Keyboard with OLED Technology !!!
>http://www.teptronics.com/optimus.html
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>...although the price is..ummm...well a tad expensive for a keyboard.
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>>Anybody know of equivalent to the now-out-o-production Fujitsu FK4726 series of keyboard? (the one I'd been using finally died -- after providing over a dozen years of reliable operation)
>>http://www.fujitsu.com/us/services/edevices/components/input/keyboards/tmpl_parts_fkb4726-601.html
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>>Most of the keyboards I find nowadays are "notebook type" which I hate -- the "flat" shape of he keyboard is very uncomfortable, and the keys aren't "full stroke" or "full travel" type. Of what I find so far on the market, most feel "mushy" (sort'a feels like I'm typing on marshmallows) and lack proper tactile feedback (I usually can't tell how far is enough, so the only way that I can get any sort of reliability is to "bottom out", which is not only hard on keyboard, but hard on my hands as well). Most keyboards I find today don't have the "solid" feel of the older keyboard that had a metal plate. The other annoyance with many keyboards I can find nowadays is that the labelling on the keytops is simply on the surface, so they wear down to blanks after some usage (the Fujitsu keyboard I was using had the labeling molded into the tkey -- so even though I'd wore down the top surface to the point where the keytops were noticibly "cupped" and shiny, the lettering was still clear).
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>>Does anybody know if there are any keyboards with a "feel" similar to that of the IBM Model M keyboard? The buckling-spring mechanism gave really nice tactile feedback on when contact was being made w/o having to "bottom out".