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Useless copy and paste crap with the sole purpose of getting to 10 posts. Useless because it will end up invisible on page 10 of the forum. And he doesn't understand the concept of wiki. Well, that's nice. I wrote all that material from scratch so that I could post some useful original content to c...

Ah well.

Content updated and moved:

http://photonotes.org/articles/keyboards/

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Here's me tossing my hat in for the contest, coincidentally with my tenth post!

MAKERS AND PRODUCTS Cherry. A German keyboard manufacturer which produces a wide range of expensive high-end keyboards, frequently intended for engineering or point of sale (POS) applications. Makers of the classic Cherry MX mechanical keyswitches. Cherry also sells the traditional G80-3000 mechanic...

OTHER Wrist rest. A platform, either hard or padded (sometimes with pressure-absorbing fabric, leather, or gel material) positioned in front of a keyboard. This allows a wrist to rest naturally when typing. Some people object to wrist rests, and argue that hands should be held in the air, parallel t...

KEYBOARD DESIGNS Split keyboard. A keyboard which is divided into two halves. Each half is either placed at a slight distance from the other, or else angled. Split keyboards may or may not have the split as an adjustable setting. Split keyboards are designed to be more ergonomic, as they more closel...

ELECTRONICS Dropouts. Keystrokes which are never received by the computer. Often caused by people typing too quickly on poor quality keyboards. Ghosting. A keyboard which produces spurious characters when two or more keys are pressed simultaneously or in rapid sequence is said to be ghosting. N key ...

KEYSWITCHES Keyswitch. An electric pushbutton (normally open) switch mechanism positioned underneath a keycap. Mechanical keyswitch. A keyswitch which employs an actual physical switch under each key. A moving mechanism, involving springs or levers or other devices, is used. The switches vary in ter...

KEYCAPS Keycap or keytop. The top surface of a key upon which a finger rests. Usually made of plastic, such as ABS (acrylonitrile butadiene styrene) or PBT (polybutylene terephthalate) plastic. Cylindrical keycap. A keycap with a slightly dished surface, as if a cylinder rested on it. (ie: left and ...

KEY LAYOUTS QWERTY. A keyboard arrangement developed by American Christopher Sholes in the 1870s, and thus sometimes called a Sholes layout. QWERTY keys are arranged seemingly randomly across the keyboard, and the layout is so named because the top left keys spell out QWERTY. Many contradictory tale...

KEYS Keyboard. In the context of computers, an electromechanical device which consists of an array of independent movable surfaces - pushbutton switches known as keys - which can be pressed by human fingertips in order to input data. Computer keyboards are modelled after typewriter keyboards, which ...

So I've been researching mechanical keyboards lately, and I'm probably going to post a little piece about my findings on my site once I've decided which keyboard to buy. But in the meantime I thought I'd post this little writeup on keyboard terminology in case someone finds it interesting. I expect ...