Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!ucla-cs!oahu.cs.ucla.edu!chao From: chao@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Chia-Chi Chao) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: PC keyboards - where to look for a good quality? Keywords: Keyboards, quality Message-ID: <1991Apr23.190556.17367@cs.ucla.edu> Date: 23 Apr 91 19:05:56 GMT References: <3294@kluge.fiu.edu> <452@newmedia.UUCP> Sender: usenet@cs.ucla.edu (Mr. News Himself) Distribution: na Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Lines: 20 Nntp-Posting-Host: oahu.cs.ucla.edu In article <452@newmedia.UUCP> jim@newmedia.UUCP (Jim Beveridge) writes: >Warning to touch typists!!!! Northgate keyboards fall apart miserably >after 50 or 60 WPM. A good typist relies on key rollover, where you >can have more than one key held down at the same time. The Northgate >keyboards will generate bogus keystrokes if you try and rely on >three key rollover. The good news is that Northgate is very reasonable >with their return policy and will refund your money if you have a problem. This is definitely a problem with their _CURRENT_ model(s). My older OmniKey 102, with only two instead of three keys on either side of the space bar, works fine. For some reason (cost reduction?), they seem to have taken out the N-key rollover feature in their current ones. If you encounter this problem, write or call Northgate to complain. I did (for my cousin's OmniKey 102 problem), but I think we need more people to bring this problem to their attention, hopefully enough to have them re-engineer the keyboards. -- Chia-Chi Chao chao@cs.ucla.edu ..!ucbvax!cs.ucla.edu!chao