On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 12:39 +0100, John Seago wrote:
My only problem is that I learned to type 40 years ago on a Monotype keyboard, from the days when printing was still done with hot metal type, where the keys were balanced against compressed air, and a very light touch was needed not to get repeated letters. Every so often I have trouble logging in as my touch is too light for the keyboard I have.
I have a similar problem in that most of the time I work with Laptops. I find the extended key travel of "desktop" keyboards annoying now.
In the end I settled on a CoolerMaster keyboard, model number EAK-US1 which is a rather pretty Aluminium thing with laptop style keys, Can't remember where I got it from but it was circa £20-25 and has blue status LEDs "so it must be good". The only vaguely annoying thing that took a little bit of adjustment is that it has the smaller "single row" style Return key
This is slightly "softer" than most keyboards, but I think the reduced keytravel alone will probably help you.
Sorry Adam, it still has the numeric keypad although it is a little smaller than a standard keyboard not being a full 105 key layout..I suggest you look at the Happy Hacker keyboards which are excellent although I don't know if they do a UK keymap version.