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On 8/15/2004 2:55 AM McGrandpa brightened our day with:

>Inglo wrote:
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>>Anyone bought a new one lately?  Anybody use one of those flexible
>>water-proof ones, do they recoil?  How about one with a scroll wheel,
>>do they work well?
>>Right now I've got one keyboard where the lights blink all the time
>>and another where a lot of keys stick, strafe right sometimes never
>>ends. Finally, did anyone buy that Doom 3 keyboard cover thing?  How
>>silly is that? :-)
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>>Steve [Inglo]
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>Doom3 cover?  I need to get outside more :( really.    I buy small 
>stacks of el cheapo keyboards from my local shop.  There's always 
>someone in the family needing one, even the best keyboards wear out or 
>quit from liquid spillage or something.  They all seem to last me about 
>6 months tops.  So $6 or $7 for a winders ps2 keyboard where they seem 
>to keep the keys in the same places regardless of brand makes this a 
>winner for me :)   I'll be looking for a Doom3 rat pad to go with my 
>Quake2 oversized one!  Oh, and a Doom3 Tshirt to go with my Q2 shirt :)
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This is the custom keyboard thing:  
http://www.ideazon.com/newWebSite/mainframesetGames.htm
this is the doom3 cover http://tinyurl.com/4oap9
It's not a terrible idea having a custom keyboard configuration, but $50 
for the board then another $20 for each new app.  I need a keyboard that 
automatically morphs itself, raising/lowering keys, moving them around, 
depending on the application your running :-P
The keyboard I'm looking at, you can sort of roll it up and it looks 
kind of indestructible, but I bet the keys just don't feel right, don't 
have the proper rebound, have to go in the store and check it out.  The 
first computer keyboard I had, back in '79, was actually a touchpad 
keyboard, I hated it.
Since I need a new one, I think I should at least get a USB model.  I've 
stuck with the basic >$10 PS/2 keyboards for the last several years, but 
thought I'd try something different, I really like the idea of having a 
scroll wheel on the keyboard.

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Steve [Inglo]