[X4U] mac keyboard for windows ?

[Zane H. Healy]

>I have a G3 iMac keyboard here which I haven't really tried yet, but I've

Is that the dinky little thing that also came with the first G4 
towers?  Horrid keyboard!

>noticed recently that I really miss older PC keyboards. I used my 
>father's the other week & the difference was immediately noticeable 
>- it's an IBM "model m" with the buckling-spring mechanism - and I 
>have an old Cherry here which I used to claim was better. Of course 
>both have PS2 connectors, so won't fit a Mac.

Even the older crummy keyboards are better than the new ones.  I have 
a cheap $10 keyboard from 1991 that is better than basically any 
keyboard currently made, and it was a crummy keyboard when I bought 
it.

The best PS/2 keyboard I own is one that came with my SGI o2.

There are two ways to tell a good keyboard, one is the key switches 
themselves, and the other is if you pick the keyboard up in both 
hands and it flexes the long way easily.

All of these are reasons my Apple Extended Keyboard II is on its 
third computer.  I miss the days when you could go into a computer 
store and spend $160 on a well built computer keyboard!  As strange 
as that statement might sound, I'm serious.  Think about it, your 
keyboard is one of three primary items you use to interface with your 
computer, and a good high-quality product makes sense.

I'm also a huge fan of the classic Logitech 3-button PS/2 mouse that 
was used with most workstations of the late 90's.  If it wasn't for 
the fact I've learned to love scroll wheels, I'd probably have gotten 
a PS/2-to-USB converter so that I could try and use one on my G5 (I 
seriously thought about getting one for my G4 when I finally switched 
to Mac OS X).

		Zane


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