When I switched to a regular keyboard, I never missed it, but I guess some people did, hence all those annoyingly loud, clicky, resistive keyboards from IBM and others. I never felt like I needed a click or a bump to tell me I was typing correctly. There was no clicky bump on those typewriters, unless you count the sound and feel of the hammer hitting the paper and roller. Do that a few dozen times and suddenly you start caring about accuracy. If I screwed up a letter, I had to backspace, get a piece of correction tape, hold it there, and then type the wrong letter over it, backspace again, and type the correct letter. Oh, and there was no integrated correction tape either.
If I didn't apply even force on the keys, the hammer would either hit too light or too dark, might type the character off center, or end up getting stuck on another hammer arm. But now that I think about it, I learned "the hard way" under the worst circumstances.
Not that I'm that old, I just went to a DoD school with crappy, outdated equipment. I learned to type on a mechanical typewriter. Would love to hear experiences people had when moving from rubber keycaps to mechanical, and whether or not the browns/blacks/reds were most like their old experience.
#Cm storm quickfire xt ps2
Has seen an extraordinary amount of use and is still going strong with exception to its melting rubber feet and fiddly PS2 connector that sometimes cuts out if bumped causing the repeat rate on the board to reset and need fixing in windows. Requires a bit of creative key mapping or autohotkey reassignment/macro use to perform certain combinations of keys especially if they involve the modifiers or the arrow keys. Pretty much love it except for the ghosting troubles it has. yuck.) Been using this keyboard since i got my first computer back in 96. I am currently using an AT&T RT 101 ( - Mine is clean unlike the one in that shot. I do have very minor past experiences with the IBM clicky boards but nothing recent to compare with. These rubber domes seem smooth to me with the slightest hint of a bump when the dome collapses into the keypress, but i do not know how that is going to compare to browns offhand. Would black, red, or brown switches most likely mimic the feel of (blue, maybe green?) rubber dome caps circa 1996? I have not had the opportunity to test a cherry-outfitted keyboard but am somewhat concerned about increased noise and encountering a vastly different key feel. There's a tradeoff, but honestly I don't notice it that much, and honestly how many keys do you actually need to press at a time on a regular keyboard for that to be an issue?įor those that swear by them, more power to you, it's just not my cup of tea, and for the uninitiated be prepared for a shift in sound level than what you were accustomed to. I have long since forgotten how load mechanical keyboards are (and I used them back in the 70's) and this was a surprising reminder when I first used it. I got a CM QuickFire Rapid awhile back to use with my living room PC, (mostly because it was the smallest width keyboard I could find that was designed for gaming at the time).
You share the space with someone else, or you prefer speakers, prepare for a whole new level of noise coming from beneath your fingertips. If you are a lone gamer in a room with no one else and headphones on, no problem. How about a noise level check on these things? The one thing no one seems to mention is how noisy these mechanical keys are.
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