I’ve been wanting to sit down all day. More than that, I’ve been wanting to type on this particular keyboard that I’m currently typing one for the whole day too. It’s a big keyboard, a full sized one, with the number pad and all that. I’ve not typed on any of these for the longest time, and personally, I think that it’s really huge. To add to it, it’s a JIS layout, which swaps around a bunch of the keys that regular keyboards use. Normally I, as with most of us, would be on an ANSI board.
But today, tonight, I’m typing on a board that’s a few years old, and it’s also got some really nice clacks to it, as I’m typing. It’s Topre, a rubber dome electrocapacitive switch. It’s also got no OS Key, which makes me type in the strangest way. I am really used to having my Mac Command Key, but I’m just mouse clicking my copy and paste, and things like that.
In any case, I’m still having fun typing on this. It’s quite fun, but not as fun as the HHKB. Maybe because of the layout, without the command key? Maybe because of the JIS and all the apostrophes are Shift + 7, and it took me like 30 seconds to find the plus sign. (Plus is Shift + Colon, and parenthesis is Shift + 8 and Shift + 9) Tonnes of relearning to do.
But hey, I have this really nice noisy keyboard to type with, and its really fun. Its louder than the HHKB, and also takes some effort to press. But man, this is really sparking some interesting ideas in my head for future keyboard plans…
Here’s to tomorrow’s Joel, who will figure out what to do about these keyboards somehow.