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mithridates

Joined: 03 Mar 2003 Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2010 12:21 am Post subject: Cleaning house a bit - starting with keyboards |
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We might be moving in a few months so it's time to start getting rid of some things we don't need. I went through a period of wanting to try out just about every keyboard under the sun and thus have six for sale that have hardly been used. In a few days I'll have a list of books (English, Korean and a few other languages) to add to this and I'll change the title then.
Here they are:
http://imgur.com/a/M9W4N/keyboards_and_stuff
You can't have the cat. Besides that they are:
First image: 12000 won, used it for about two days.
Second image: 8000 won, made of rubber and silent, rolls up, can get spilled on. Used this one the most as it's both quiet and relatively small.
Third and fourth image: 8000 won, also made of rubber and nothing wrong with it but I preferred the smaller one so never got into this one.
Page 2:
http://imgur.com/a/M9W4N/keyboards_and_stuff/2
First image: 12000 won, liked this one quite a bit though it was a bit loud so I didn't end up using it much late at night.
Second image: another image of the first keyboard from page 1.
Third image: 15000 won, one of my favourites but probably an acquired taste as the keys are much smaller than a standard keyboard. I use Dvorak and thus like having my hands move as little as possible and so the smaller keyboard was quite fun. Moving back and forth from this to a standard size can be disconcerting though.
Fourth image: 10000 won. Pretty compact and not too bad, just never really got into it.
Fifth image: the keyboard in the third image again.
Then page 3 has the small rubber keyboard again.
I assume people will be more interested in books than keyboards but who knows. I live in Gangnam, near COEX. |
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Alphabet_Stew

Joined: 13 Jun 2010 Location: Earth
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Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2010 4:00 pm Post subject: |
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You seem to have the worst taste in keyboards - just throw them out.
Try a "Microsoft comfort-curve" keyboard - so soft on the fingers and great to use. |
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mithridates

Joined: 03 Mar 2003 Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2010 4:18 pm Post subject: |
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Alphabet_Stew wrote: |
Try a "Microsoft comfort-curve" keyboard - so soft on the fingers and great to use. |
I think you mean so bulky and phenomenally awkward, complete with a whole extra useless section on top with buttons such as home, mail and search taking up valuable space. Any extra space devoted to a useless function means I'm not going to buy it.
The keyboard on the bottom left here is one I have that I'm not selling:
http://www.slipjig.org/ezr2030/keyboards.jpg
The one you suggest is more similar to the one on the middle right. After moving from Qwerty to Dvorak (= one's fingers hardly have to move around at all) I'm not interested in a keyboard that's any bigger than it needs to be. |
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Scotticus
Joined: 18 Mar 2007
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Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2010 6:25 pm Post subject: |
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I apologize, as this adds nothing to your quest to sell your keyboards, but what is with you and keyboards? Do you collect them, or something? What need is possibly fulfilled - outside of collecting - by having so many of them? |
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mithridates

Joined: 03 Mar 2003 Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2010 7:39 pm Post subject: |
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Scotticus wrote: |
I apologize, as this adds nothing to your quest to sell your keyboards, but what is with you and keyboards? Do you collect them, or something? What need is possibly fulfilled - outside of collecting - by having so many of them? |
I feel kind of silly for having bought so many, but I suppose learning Dvorak in 2005 set me on a quest for the perfect keyboard. If you take what you wrote there and feed it into here:
http://www.typocheck.co.uk/dvorak/
then you get 5.5 metres for Qwerty compared to 3.2 metres for Dvorak, as well as being on the home row (the easiest row to type on) 66% of the time with Dvorak whereas with Qwerty you're only there 34% of the time. So after that I started thinking about whether I could improve this further by getting a different keyboard as well, and that's when I started experimenting. The typematrix keyboard (the one in the image) has a really good design but it had a weird glitch where every second day or so it would suddenly TURN INTO ALL CAPS AND WOULDN'T SWITCH BACK NO MATTER WHAT so eventually I had to stop using it. Too bad, as it had a Qwerty-Dvorak switch which makes it much easier to use Dvorak on somebody else's computer as all you need to do is flip it and you're done.
Now, about ten keyboards later I'm no closer to perfection and the Samsung laptop I have has a really good keyboard anyway so I haven't bought any for a while.
I'm interested in constructed languages and there are a lot of old pdfs from the early 20th century that I like to type up and put online in copyable format,
here's one --> http://www.pagef30.com/2010/05/complete-grammar-of-idiom-neutral.html
so even a small increase of speed can result in a book taking a few days less time to fully type up. |
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