Mousing is bad, and tapping keys that don't have enough play to allow slower stopping is also bad. I may have had to hit the typewriter keys a bit harder, but they had wonderful play that no modern computer keyboard mimics.
A manual keyboard needed a hard hit to move the key fast enough to make an impression, but because of the travel distance of the key, it wasn't such a shock to the finger. The counterweight of the key also helped to lift your finger back up, rather than making you work to do it. Electronic-typewriter keyboards also had a longer travel distance than computer keyboards, and had a solid spring that tossed your fingers back up, so you didn't have to work so hard to lift them again.
I would kill for a clackety keyboard for my computer. The very old Mac keyboards were pretty good, but they don't have USB hookups.
Yes, but it's mostly nostalgia. I remember getting an old typewriter when I was like 5 or so, before we had a computer (should probably clarify here that I was born in 85). I loved the clicking of the keys, which only the old IBM keyboards emulate at all, and loved seeing the ink pop up on the paper.
Practically speaking, hell no. My hands would never put up with it now (I have RA and it's affected my hands more than any other joints); I need a split keyboard and the Dvorak layout to even use my computer without pain. *le sigh*
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Mousing is bad, and tapping keys that don't have enough play to allow slower stopping is also bad. I may have had to hit the typewriter keys a bit harder, but they had wonderful play that no modern computer keyboard mimics.
A manual keyboard needed a hard hit to move the key fast enough to make an impression, but because of the travel distance of the key, it wasn't such a shock to the finger. The counterweight of the key also helped to lift your finger back up, rather than making you work to do it. Electronic-typewriter keyboards also had a longer travel distance than computer keyboards, and had a solid spring that tossed your fingers back up, so you didn't have to work so hard to lift them again.
I would kill for a clackety keyboard for my computer. The very old Mac keyboards were pretty good, but they don't have USB hookups.
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Practically speaking, hell no. My hands would never put up with it now (I have RA and it's affected my hands more than any other joints); I need a split keyboard and the Dvorak layout to even use my computer without pain. *le sigh*