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From: phil@pepsi.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Northgate keyboards
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Date: 22 Feb 90 17:46:57 GMT
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In article <19500056@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu> mead@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
|Which leads me to ask:  What is it that so many of you do with it
|that you like it so much?  The "feel" is horrible.  I much prefer 

It feels great to me (I might even like it better than the IBM,
which seems to have too much key travel and force) but keyboards are
like editors, they tend to get religious.

|either IBM or my (admittedly cheesly - Made in Taiwan) ZEOS 
|keyboard for both writing and programming - nice easy touch, crisp
|click.

Surprise! Northgate is also MIT.

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