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After purchasing a Keychron K6 from eBay to test it out, I learned a lot about what I wanted and didn’t want in a keyboard. I’ve settled on another Keychron model, this time a K8 in the Pro series. The Pro series has better stabilizers for large keys like space and shift, better keys with …
Soon after I purchased my Keychron K6, I purchased a Matias Tactile Pro 4. This is a keyboard with an interesting lineage. It attempts to recreate the feel of the Apple Extended Keyboard (and Extended Keyboard II) by leveraging the same key switches. Well, kind of. The Extended Keyboard, and Apple’s other 1980’s keyboards, used …
I couldn’t read 600 pages about the history of typewriters without wanting to buy at least one. I already own a manual model from the 1960’s, but I wanted a typewriter that bridged the era of typing and computing. I wanted a word processor, one from the 80s or 90s with a daisy wheel, correction …
I bought an electronic typewriter recently; I'll tell you about it later. What's important about this typewriter is that it includes a floppy disk drive to store and retrieve documents. I was disappointed to discover that the drive didn't work - it couldn't read or format a disk. I took the typewriter apart because I …
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