

Because it keeps me from moving my hands much while I type, and keeps me from looking at the keyboard, and I like the feeling of the keys. I currently use an 88-key unlabelled WASD with dampening o-rings. I admit to a certain arrogance about it.Ī colleague and I bought and tested about 10-15 keyboards, including some very expensive specials, and the ones we ended up using weren’t the most expensive one, which probably would get you into trouble with the bookkeepers if you were to try it. Don’t let anyone at you with a knife.” It’s served me well. He spoke cluefully and I’ve followed his advice in the decades since. A friend in his department just brought me along. But as luck would have it, that office was in a… well, not in a hospital, but on campus, so got to see a real specialist quickly. Two keyboards with different layouts on different desks, changing between them every few minutes, a terrible project, and some ungood stress out of the office.


Prelude: I worked myself into a state where I needed a two-hour break after about twenty minutes of keyboarding.
