7 Responses to “Zippy WK-720 Keyboard”

1. macb Says:
   August 26th, 2004 at 4:48 pm

   Good luck with your new keyboard. I tend to like products from Taiwan. They still have that work-ethic thing going for them without having to use slave labor.

   I’ve found that I only like about one out of ten keyboards I try. Keypress being too hard, or too soft eliminates about half of them, the rest I’m likely to take home and find out over a period of weeks what their deficiencies are. Even some that I thought were OK at first finally proved to be not up to my sloppy typing skills. In the good old days you could press your fist into a keyboard and get a dozen or so keys to register, these days you are lucky to get two. “Rollover” it’s called, and almost no keyboard today has enough of it for my liking. Furthermore American consumers (or maybe it’s all consumers) are not demanding enough for them even to publish the rollover specs for modern keyboards. The vast majority of my typos consist of missing letters caused by my having hit a key before letting up on the previous key (or two or three). IBM Selectric typewriters didn’t have a problem with this (nor the terminals built with the same components). The original IBM PC keyboard was pretty darned good too, and when it got cheapened, Northgate (a computer company at the time) made an excellent replacement. These days, it’s shocking to find the most expensive (as in way overpriced) computers equipped with the same old cheap cr*p that comes with the no-name brands.

   As recently as recently I’ve been through the dozen or so keyboards at Circuit City, CompUSA, and Microcenter and found nothing worth buying. On the other hand, one weekenda few months ago, at night, after most stores were closed, I realized I had neglected to bring a keyboard to hook up to this PC. In desperation I went to Walmart and got the only keyboard they had (not surprisingly, made in China). It has turned out to be pretty good. So, much so that when I moved my other computer equipment here from Virginia, I continued to use the el-cheapo rather than the last “deluxe” keyboard that I could stand to use.

   In other words, I’ve found no correlation between keyboards I like and any other attribute, be it price, place of origin, retail outlet.

2. AP Says:
   August 27th, 2004 at 3:53 pm

   Nice keyboard! How are you? Having seen you lately! My camera died
   If you like web=based games, come check out the one I am hosting!

   Miss ya!

3. Aine Says:
   August 28th, 2004 at 3:10 am

   @Mac: I’d go try them out first, but the nearest place to buy a keyboard from here is 55+ miles away, and with the price of gas, my shopping trips are pretty much non-existent. Besides, I like shopping online. Also, there is very little chance I would find a keyboard locally that didn’t have all those funky Internet or Audio functions on it, and that was my main goal, getting rid of those and saving a little more desktop space.

   @AP: I’ve been online, just not using Trillian very much. I’ve been working very hard behind the scenes at B$… probably put in about 21 hours yesterday. Things are looking good, though… am very positive about the direction we’re going. I look back every once in a while from what we started with to what we’ve got right now, and there’s noticeable progress. It’s still not perfect, of course, still much to be done… but we’ll get there.

4. Aine Says:
   September 13th, 2004 at 1:10 am

   After about a week of using this keyboard, I can report that I like it very much. Key action is smooth, layout is not that difficult to get adjusted to… my fingers slip once in a while and hit the caps lock key instead of the “a” key, but a bright blue light lets me know I’ve done it. Overall, very happy with my choice… I tend to like the feel of laptop keyboards and this one feels very much like that, only sturdier.

5. Brett Says:
   November 23rd, 2004 at 12:50 am

   I live in Utah, U.S.. I would like to know where I can buy this(zippy wk-720) keyboard. Also have you seen its lighted counterpart the zippy el-720. I have not been able to find anywhere in the US that sell it. Any ideas. Thanks for the help

6. Aine Says:
   November 23rd, 2004 at 12:58 am

   http://www.caspower.com/product.asp?pID=160&cID=72

7. peanut Says:
   October 5th, 2005 at 6:44 pm

   www.netlinktechnology.com

   they seem to have the most keyboards manufactured by zippy, including the EL-720. i use the wk-720 myself, but i’m waiting for the el-720 to arrive.

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