New keyboard. Old one is sleeping with the fishes. Expect typoos.
@th3j35t3r
Current view. If you were sporting one of these you'd never have to replace anything. Mine was built in 1990, was given to me from a computer repair shop bone yard in '98 and I have done nothing to it except clean it. Runs like a top and I can type faster on it than anything else.
@voltronic These are legendary.
@th3j35t3r
For good reason. My last day working at the PC repair shop, my boss said I could go into the back room boneyard and grab anything I wanted. There was a stack of these, and I picked out the cleanest one.
Nun Lock LED is out, but everything else is flawless. Every year or so I disassemble it and give it a thorough cleaning. All the key caps and the outer shells get a scrub in hot soapy water.
@voltronic @th3j35t3r If I didnโt really need an ergonomic, Iโd absolutely be using one still. Likely the one I first got with an actual PS/2 in 1990.
@ehurtley
Please pardon me because I do not know what medical restrictions you may have, but I always ask everybody who says they need an ergonomic keyboard: have you tried typing like a pianist? By that I mean not resting your wrists on the desk, keeping the backs of your hands roughly parallel to your forearms and avoiding any lateral rotation of the wrist? Maybe it's because I AM a pianist, but I found that doing this alleviates all wrist fatigue, without a split keyboard.
@voltronic @th3j35t3r While I CAN physically type on a regular keyboard (I've done "piano style" for decades) for short periods, even that tires out my wrists quickly. It truly is the wrist side-to-side angle that exacerbates my carpal-tunnel.
My carpal isn't terrible yet, this has been a preemptive "keep from getting terrible" measure so far. The big difference between typing and piano playing is that on the piano, your arms move around, even with the best typing technique, it's mostly hands.