Comment Re:just curious... (Score 1) 190
This.
My mother was employed as a legal secretary most of her life. When they graduated from electronic typewriters to computers, they issued her at some point with the standard squishy membrane keyboard. Her finger joint arthritis flared right up, because the feedback cues she had got used to from a lifetime of typing on proper keyboards had gone.
As her loving son, it was my duty to mail her a Cherry MX keyboard (A G80-3000). Her IT support griped and bitched about having to replace her keyboard, but she told them I was both an IT guy *and* a doctor, which shut them up.
Her finger arthritis was markedly better in a couple of weeks. She took the keyboard home with her when she retired and it's still in use on her workstation at home.
IMHO, giving professional typists a membrane keyboard should be considered a health and safety violation. It staggers me that so-called ergonomic layouts are usually membrane boards.