> On 01 Jun 2016, at 16:46 , Liam Proven <lpro...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 1 June 2016 at 00:16, Swift Griggs <swiftgri...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I've never >> known them to create "clackety" keyboards with mechanical switches > > But that's the point. This here Extended II has them, as did the > Extended I before it. (I have one of them too, but I couldn't find it > in my storage unit in London to bring it over here to the Czech > Republic.) > > I think the earlier ones do too, but they, although pleasant to type > on, have weird key layouts, especially of the cursor keys. The > Extended I & II have a PC-like layout, which minimised the mental > effort of switching between my Mac, my PC laptops and my IBM Model-M > equipped Raspberry Pi. "Inverted T" FTW!
The Apple //e, //c, //c+ and //GS all had mechanical and somewhat clicky keyboards (using various types of Alps keyswitches). I'm also pretty certain that the original Mac had a (very nice) clicky keyboard.
