Keyboards

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Wed Mar 21 15:29:16 CST 2007


Chuck Guzis wrote:
> On 21 Mar 2007 at 10:19, Steve Shumaker wrote:
> 
>> That style of keyboard was also used in the "Northgate" 
>> computers.  They custom designed one of the heaviest keyboards on the 
>> market and sold it with their Northgate clones in the mid /ate 
>> 80s.  
> 
> Alas, good keyboards got very hard to get after price competition in 
> PC keyboards got to be real.  At one time, Keytronics made some of 
> the better keyboards, then moved their operation out of the US and 
> sold out to Honeywell and marketed what amounts to looks-just-like-
> every-other-far-East-keyboards.

http://www.pckeyboard.com/ for the Model M.  Still being made.

Peace...  Sridhar


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