🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sat, 07 Jul 2018 08:34:09 -0400, Bud Frede <fr...@mouse-potato.com>
wrote:

>Peter Flass <peter...@yahoo.com> writes:
>
>> John Levine <jo...@taugh.com> wrote:
>>> In article <phbieo$1noi$1...@gioia.aioe.org>,
>>> Chris  <xxx.sys...@gfsys.co.uk> wrote:
>>>> ago. Of course, let's not forget the first IBM PC's and
>>>> their clicky over center sping action. Used to love those.
>>> 
>>> IBM sold the design to these guys.  The keyboards aren't cheap but
>>> they're good.
>>> 
>>> https://www.pckeyboard.com/
>>> 
>>
>> Prices seem to have come down a little. I have one on my primary machine; I
>> love the reassurance of the "click" to let me know I actually pressed the
>> key - something that the virtual keyboard on this iPad doesn't offer.
>
>I hate onscreen virtual keyboards. I find them very hard to type
>accurately with. Part of that is probably because I have large hands and
>thus fingertips. I tried using a stylus in the past, but modern
>smartphones and tablets don't have a good place to store a stylus, so I
>kept misplacing it.

Just a comment but the Samsung Galaxy Tab A with S-Pen has an internal
storage slot for the stylus.  This limits the size of the stylus
though so it's not all that comfortable to write with.  I believe that
the Galaxy Note has a similar arrangement.

The Surface Pro has a magnetic attachment for the stylus, however it's
not very secure (I suspect they do that to sell more styli).

>I used to use Palmpilot PDAs and I had an alternative virtual keyboard
>called the Fitaly keyboard. I found that I was able to be very fast and
>accurate when using that with a stylus. I was far faster than anyone I
>saw who tried to use the pseudo-handwriting input (I think it was called
>Jot?).