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From: s131bb@gandalf.Berkeley.EDU (Jonathan)
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Subject: Re: Northgate C/T keyboards
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Date: 10 Mar 89 02:18:36 GMT
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In article <1989Mar9.200917.2634@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> sarathy@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Rajiv Sarathy) writes:
>I've been seeing Northgate (of Minnesota, I think) ads consistently in
>PC Magazine for the last year and a half.
>
>They advertise an enhanced keyboard, which they claim has a tactile response
>approaching that of an IBM.  Can anyone validate this claim?

Yes. A freind of mine has one and I've tried it, though not extensivly.

The feed back that is to say the tension on the down stroke seems to be the 
same with an almoxt imperceptably lighter atenuation at the point of 'click'.
In short I liked it quite a bit.


>
>On the picture, there seemed to be some sort of membrane-switches or some other
>dark "patch" just above the top row of keys (the picture wasn't of great

These are not switches but it is a membrane. It can be used to write on
with a grease pen or other such instrument so that one can lable what
the function keys do.

 
Jonathan White    jwhite@garnet.berkeley.edu