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Re: First Special Amiga.org offer
« on: August 29, 2003, 05:46:45 PM »
>Infra-red range is only about 15m

It's an "RF wireless multimedia keyboard", that means radio frequency, not IR. It does have minimal protection in form of sixteen channels so you won't normally move the cursor on your neighbour's computer or see his keywords on your screen (but you might, if he's close and uses a similar keyboard).
 

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Re: First Special Amiga.org offer
« Reply #1 on: August 30, 2003, 11:27:12 AM »
Here is an excellent keyboard from Cherry that does have a cable, the G80-3000:



This is the top variant from their Classic Line. Unlike the keyboard offered here (from their Trend Line), this one still has the gold-crosspoint technology that made them famous: individual gold-plated micro switches for every single key. Not the cheap rubber membrane contact system used in virtually all keyboards on the market - and Cherry's Trend Line keyboards. If you ever had such a keyboard before you, you know what that means: best tactile feedback in the world of keyboards. The unprecision and dampening effect that comes with rubber in the construction of keys is totally absent. At 50 EUR, it's not exactly cheap for a keyboard without wireless and without mouse and without multimedia keys. But it's worth every cent. Be careful though that they also have an inferior model with the same look and nearly identical name (G81-3000) but a cheap membrane contact system.