Re: Non-mushy keyboards

["Robert H. Kubie" rhkubie@xxxxxxxx]

I too am a fan of the old Northgate keyboard. When my old one finally wore
out, I bought a replacement from an outfit called Skywalker Communications,
1000 South Service West Road, O'Fallon, Missouri 63366, telephone 272-8025
(that is probably 314-272-8025, but I can't be certain, my 314 area code
has been split up, recently). The address is within half an hour's driving
distance from St. Louis, where I am. The keyboard is just like my good old
Northgate, with function keys both across the top and up the left side, but
that it has a couple of Windows keys added.

It is, as far as I can make out, a newly manufactured keyboard. I think
they offer several variations of the Northgate Omni Key Ultra. You can
switch the CapsLock and left Alt keys, if memory serves; I have had my
CapsLock up next to the A key for so long that I no longer recall just
which key it can be exchanged with. I think it was the left Alt, but it
might have been the left Ctrl.

I use the Keyboard on a fairly powerful Gateway, by the way, running
Windows 98.

Having hastily typed this reply without first reading the rest of my email,
it occurs to me that you may have had a gazillion other replies. Oh, well.
... .


--RHKubie

At 06:42 PM 9/5/99 +0200, you wrote:
> Does anyone have a good, clicky (i.e. non-mushy) keyboard to recommend,
> with the Ctrl key next to the "A"? A little over a year ago, there was a
> bunch of discussion about this. At the time people recommended the Avant
> Stellar keyboard, and if it's still the best out there I'd be willing to
> pay the high price. (I, too, am a Northgate keyboard fan, and my old
> keyboard has finally given up the ghost.) But when I tried the website
> http://cvtinc.com/avant.htm, I discovered that it's no longer there.
>
> It's not all-important to me to have the function keys on the left. A good,
> clicky tactile response, and the control key well placed are what I care
> about most. Is the Stellar keyboard still out there? Are there any others
> worth considering? I guess no one makes keyboards like the old IBM AT ones?
> What a joy they were!
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Alan


Robert H. Kubie
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