Mechanical keyboards plus looking for Fatbody?????

[Tactless1]

[Masato]

When your ? buttons inevitably break, do you replace the whole keyboard each time? Or can you just repair that same button over and over?

just curious

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[Tactless1]

When your ? buttons inevitably break, do you replace the whole keyboard each time? Or can you just repair that same button over and over?

just curious

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That's a good question I can answer in some detail. I use mechanical keyboards. When IBM first made the first PCs (in the 1980s and 1990s) they made them with very sturdy and very durable keyboards that were made of metal and plastic components as opposed to the all plastic of today's cheaply made keyboards. Each key in a mechanical keyboard uses a switch that has metal components that are used in the most important functions when the key is depressed and returns to it's original position. the action is so robust that the key switch is guaranteed to work for 50,000,000 times as opposed to the plastic constructions which will fail in a couple of months to a year or two without any guarantees, The original IBM keyboards are still out there and highly prized for their durability and legendary longevity. They command hefty prices when they are on the market. The mechanical keyboards of today are used by dedicated typists and more so by gamers who used certain keys repeatedly like the WASD keys and demand the reliability since they press these keys much more often.

For more information see:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8jX2Dp ... 8jX2DpHA5E
https://mechanicalkeyboards.com/shop/?l ... t_list&c=1

https://www.tomshardware.com/picturesto ... oards.html

https://www.mechanical-keyboard.org/swi ... e_vignette

[Tactless1]

When your ? buttons inevitably break, do you replace the whole keyboard each time? Or can you just repair that same button over and over?

just curious

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And to answer your specific questions from above, if a specific key fails (which is unlikely in a mechanical keyboard with each key guaranteed for 50 million times of usage to 100,000,00 actuations) the individual key switch can be replaced if nonfunctional though I have never had a mechanical key fail on me yet since I won't press any key more than several tens of thousands times in a lifetime???!!!

[Tactless1]

And this the fabled IBM model M keyboard:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_M_keyboard

and here's what they're selling for:

https://www.clickykeyboards.com/product ... been-used/

[Tactless1]

I've just ordered and had delivered from Amazon a new mechanical keyboard from Amazon. Its a wired and small keyboard. 60% with 62 keys with red switches which are linear (they go up and down without the clickety clack of a blue switch) and are designed more for the gamer than the typist (supposedly the tactile feel of the blue switch are the best for typists.) I'm typing on this new keyboard as we speak. The keystrokes are smooth and the keys are black but are backlit with a nice rainbow color effect of red, orange, green, blue and purple and makes the keyboard to see at night in a darkened room. The keyboard layout is compact and in the European format withe ENTER key in the shape of an upside down 'L' which prefer than the straight rectangular on American keyboards. I haven't made a lot of typos on this keyboard but would like to try a brown switch (that's a blue switch with the accompanying bump when you press down without the sound of the clickety clack sound----basically a silent blue) keyboard in the small 60% format, More on that later while I spend a few weeks familiarizing myself with this keyboard,

[Tactless1]

Theres hope for Fatbody?????

https://nypost.com/2023/12/13/news/sout ... ze-policy/

[Tactless1]

Fatbody should be interested in this????

https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/14/business ... index.html

[Tactless1]

My next project is connecting my mini mechanical keyboard via OTG cable to the USB C port on my Amazon HD 8 Fire tablet, which is easy. I've a got little stand (bought from Temu) for the tablet and have order a glass protective screen plus a stylus so that I can use the stylus instead of a mouse on the interactive screen which I can't to with a normal laptop.

I'm thinking of getting a 10 inch tablet to go with a keyboard to be my main go-to typing device. Just waiting for the prices to go down on tablets. I'd like to buy an Amazon fire since their customer service is excellent. Others are non-existent. But you obviously pay more for that.

[Tactless1]

The over all plan is to increase my writing. Type up a first draft and then afterwards use the stylus to edit the days work. I'd like to 1,000 words going up to 3000 words a day as a creative writer. I think this will be very exciting since my output, some of it here, will be much greater. Don't you agree????