User:Flurry

Welcome to Flurry's User Page.

A little bit of me and my beloved QuickFire

I've been a Deskthority contributor since early 2013, about the same week I got my very first "fancy" keyboard: Cooler Master's CM Storm Quickfire Pro, a tenkeyless keyboard SOOO good to type in that I had to share it with all of us Deskthority readers.

I type mostly in Spanish and English, so when Cooler Master decided not only to remove the then-most ridiculed "logomania" design, AND add a Spanish ISO version to their offerings, plus at HALF the price ($50) I just HAD to had this extremely hard to find model.

As of late 2013 I'm still thrilled at how good is typing on a mechanical keyboard, especially the lightest of them all: Cherry MX Brown switches. The reds are same-weighted and usually marketed as the lightest of them all, but since they don't provide any actual feedback people usually feel the need to bottom-out every keystroke which is in practice is not only tiring but rather cheap feeling in nature.

Personally I upped my typing skills in a consistent 55-60 WPM in English (which is a foreign language for me) and never get tired.

Before the Web - IBM Model F

I used to type on an old IBM Model F (the daddy of the Model M), which at the time was not impressive since the "newer" Model M had what would eventually become the definitive PC keyboard layout. My Model F was two "F"-keys short (F11 and F12), but thankfully no DOS or Windows application had a need for those keys. Anyways, my Model F was a true delight to type in. It's even noted that the model F had a more exotic (and bit more expensive to make) capacitive contacts perated by the buckling spring mechanism. I'm not sure, but that thing nevr missed a keystroke, no matter how dirty the keyboard would become. It had MASSIVE weight, was reassuringly LOUD and the instantaneous tactile and audible feedback gave a new meaning to the term "touch typing" since you'd have to be a butterfingers or completely deaf to bottom out key presses after little practicing. That keyboard saw me migrating from an IBM 8088 XT, AT, PS/2, the first Intel 386sx all the way to the Pentium III platforms, when the AT-PS/2 adapter was becoming a hindrance and the keyboard already saw several accidental falls, including one from service stairs when I was drying it after it's customary "heavy duty" brushing with detergent and all. That thing was built like the proverbial Military Tank.

Enough about me.

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