I have a microCONNECTORS USB keyboard that works pretty well. What I like about it is that the tactile and sound feedback is almost exactly like the original 128K Macintosh that I used actively until 1991—the feel and responsiveness thus make it very loud while I’m in full swing (about 60wpm) but enable me to hit those speeds, whereas the soft-touch keyboards of IBM clones and the low-impact shallow Japanese-type keyboards of Powerbooks often make me feel that I had not hit a key even though I see it on the screen. Very annoying.
The things I don’t like about the keyboard are - that it follows the current F-J bump trend that Macintosh keyboards have, rather than having the bumps on the D-K keys; and
- that when I drop the keyboard while I have a Microsoft Intellimouse plugged in to the other USB slot on the TiBook, I lose both trackpad and mouse interaction with the GUI—that is, I can move the mouse, but clicks don’t register and passing over the Dock does not produce a response.
When the second thing happens, I generally have to log out (command-shift-Q, then I can immediately use my mouse on the user selection screen) if I haven’t turned on keyboard-toggled Universal Access in the System Preferences. Otherwise, I can hit option five times to turn on keypad mousing. At least, I think that this will solve my problem (5-key for mouse).
Current uptime: 4:45PM up 11 days, 8:53, 5 users, load averages: 1.73, 1.60, 1.47.
4:45:49 PM 
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