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First post, by dr_st

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Garbage:
Wired600.jpg

Not garbage:
Wired200.jpg

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Reply 1 of 10, by badmojo

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colour me cautiously curious but mainly confused 😕

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Reply 2 of 10, by Errius

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I would guess one of them died after a minor beverage mishap but the other is still going strong after multiple spills.

Is this too much voodoo?

Reply 3 of 10, by tayyare

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Wired 200 is what I'm using for some time (3-4 years) without issues. I find it while looking for a keyboard with a (dirt) cheap price tag, known brand, and most importantly regular layout with real function keys/regular (higher) keys.

Wired 600 in the other picture is a textbook example of a keyboard that I never ever purchase... with that stupid modernish function keys.

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Reply 4 of 10, by appiah4

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Those low profile keys on the Wired 600 make it a no deal for me, and for the record whoever invented apple magic style keyboards needs to be shot dead twice:

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Reply 5 of 10, by oeuvre

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bloody hate chiclets

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Reply 6 of 10, by MrMateczko

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Huh? I'm typing this on my over three years old Wired 600 keyboard, works fine.
Though I prefer PS/2 keyboards anyway 😜

Reply 7 of 10, by tayyare

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MrMateczko wrote:

Huh? I'm typing this on my over three years old Wired 600 keyboard, works fine.
Though I prefer PS/2 keyboards anyway 😜

We never say that it's not working as expected. We said that it feels like shit (wit those low height keys and non functional function keys 🤣 )

GA-6VTXE PIII 1.4+512MB
Geforce4 Ti 4200 64MB
Diamond Monster 3D 12MB SLI
SB AWE64 PNP+32MB
120GB IDE Samsung/80GB IDE Seagate/146GB SCSI Compaq/73GB SCSI IBM
Adaptec AHA29160
3com 3C905B-TX
Gotek+CF Reader
MSDOS 6.22+Win 3.11/95 OSR2.1/98SE/ME/2000

Reply 8 of 10, by appiah4

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tayyare wrote:
MrMateczko wrote:

Huh? I'm typing this on my over three years old Wired 600 keyboard, works fine.
Though I prefer PS/2 keyboards anyway 😜

We never say that it's not working as expected. We said that it feels like shit (wit those low height keys and non functional function keys 🤣 )

I would go one step forward and say that it is objectively and unobjectionably shit.

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Reply 9 of 10, by Errius

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Is the OP going to explain his reasoning?

Is this too much voodoo?