This. I'm not the keyboard snob my late wife was--she tested at 100 WPM and was most comfortable on the IBM Selectric keyboard--but I have a major preference for decent mechanical keyboards. I'm typing this on a Unicomp board, a brand we discovered when looking for a decent computer keyboard for her.and the basic membrane keyboard sucks, if you are a keyboard snob/someone who knows how to type.
Actually, I had supposed that it would be third parties that would have first released mechanical keyboards for Pi-x00 products, on the grounds that there probably weren't enough keyboard snobs out here for RPL to do it themselves (as in, not enough mass for mass market). I am happy to have been proven wrong about this and I would look forward to an RPL branded product that makes a standalone keyboard from the Pi-500+ one. If it included a numeric keypad, it would immediately replace the pile of Logitech K-120 ones I have for the folks that do input for me when running the DunDraCon convention registration desk. (That is, I'd probably buy about 6 of them right off the bat.)
Statistics: Posted by W. H. Heydt — Thu Sep 25, 2025 9:19 pm