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From: jdb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian K. W. Hook)
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Subject: Re: PC keyboards - where to look for a good quality?
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Date: 26 Apr 91 22:39:25 GMT
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I would like to point out one thing about Northgate keyboards lately.
Their quality has been SLACKING big time.  From using about 200 of them (I
work as a technician at a big energy company) I can say that the models
with F-keys on the left are VERY good.  This is the one I have at home (an
OmniKeyh/102).

The model with F-keys on top only (OmniKey/101?) is a little bit flimsy.
You can twist sort of like a cheap Chicony keyboard.

The model that is for XTs only (the 84 key model, I think) that looks like
a regular XT keyboard or 84-key AT keyboard SUCKS.  I had one and promptly
returned it.  It was no better than a cheap Chicony or Mtec.

Brian