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Re:New Model M Is an American-Made Keyboard That Puts a Spri... by cbm-vic-20 on Thursday February 18, 2021 @08:42AM (#26179677)
Agree. Older-than-40 here, I learned to type primarily on electric typewriters and old-school terminal keyboards, where the switches would trigger around half-way down the travel of the key. When I use a mechanical keyboard, I do the same- the Cherry MX Clear switches in my keyboard act in a similar way- you don't need to "bottom out" a switch for it to activate.

Manual typewriters, though, had a /huge/ amount of travel, and since the travel provides the force to strike the type on to the paper, you really had to hammer on them.

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Re:New Model M Is an American-Made Keyboard That Puts a Spri... by matwood on Thursday February 18, 2021 @01:27PM (#26183558)
> Older-than-40 here, I learned to type primarily on electric typewriters and old-school terminal keyboards

Came here to say the same thing. But then I was stuck on keyboards that required bottoming out for many years. It's been a re-learning process to not bottom out on my fairly keychron k2. But, wow so pleasant to use.

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