A blink of an eye, playing peripherals for almost ten years, during the course of ten years used a lot of mechanical keyboards, mice, but also know many friends, and some friends may be a lifetime friend.
When I was still white, even the mass production keyboard was incomplete. However, on a fortuitous occasion, he became the moderator of the customized area of ​​the largest forum for external peripherals at that time. From what customization was not known, he gradually learned about the entire customized circle and even the entire peripheral. ring.
To tell you the truth, the peripherals are tired, and the games are played. Whether it is mass production or customization, the entire industry can make people's eyes brighter and fewer products, plus old age, The heart of burning peripherals has also been talked about more and more. It lacks a passion and is more rational.
Next year is the 10th anniversary of my playing with peripherals. I plan to take advantage of the 10th anniversary and give myself a gift. That is to sort out what I have learned about the “peripherals†in the past 10 years. I don’t want to write a few reviews, a single sheet, and a tutorial. It is simply writing "peripherals" in my eyes.
Write the keyboard first, and if it's done, there will still be mood and flowers that will continue to be written on the mouse, headphones, and more.
Special thanks to a person, he took me to the peripherals, while at the same time in life and work is like a brother.
A Brief History of Mechanical Keyboards The First History of KeyboardsPeripherals, computer peripherals, most of the hardware devices except the host can be called external devices, or peripheral devices.
The keyboard, as the most frequently accessed peripheral, has been ignored by most people for a long time. In recent years, as material life has become better and more and more attention has been paid to e-sports, along with meat muffins, it has gradually entered the career of ordinary people through game anchors.
First, the biggest scam on typewritersSpeaking of the keyboard, I think everybody knows it and uses it every day, but you may not know that the history of the keyboard is much earlier than that of the computer. Although the world's first computer appeared in the 1940s, individuals The use of small computers did not begin until the 1970s, but keyboards, now a component of computers, appeared in 1714.
Perhaps many enthusiasts know that the American Steff Larson Shores was the "father of typewriters." In 1868, he was patented as a typewriter model and obtained operational rights. As the world's first commercial mechanical typewriter, it made people thoroughly Bid farewell to the era of “printing type printingâ€. At that time, “this magical machine could neatly and accurately hit the letters one by one on the parchment†and immediately attracted many factories to purchase patents for production. A large number of government and company staff went to buy and use them. .
But what you don't know is that everyone is using it now. The most classic QWERTY keyboard layout can be said to be “one of the biggest fraudulent activities in historyâ€, not only deceiving people all over the world, but also the time is long. More than a century.
In the 1970s, at the beginning of the invention of a typewriter, many people would consciously go faster and harder. Instead, it caused frequent mechanical failures (for example, card keys). In order to solve this problem, Shoals ran to ask his brother-in-law. - A mathematician and school teacher help. His brother-in-law proposed a solution: break letters into discrete pieces to reduce the typist's typing speed and reduce the occurrence of failures.
So he cleverly played a trick and said that this arrangement is the most scientific and can speed up people's typing speed.
Strangely, those scientific keyboards that are different from the design of Sauers are actually eliminated by history. For example: DVORAK keyboard cloth, its principle is: 1, as far as possible to alternately beat the left and right hands to avoid single-handedly combos; 2 The average moving distance between the row and the row of keys is the smallest; 3. The location of the guide row should be the most commonly used letter.
Although the problems of early typewriters have long been solved, people have gradually become accustomed to using this weird QWERTY keyboard and are still using it today.
Second, the legendary electrostatic capacitor keyboardThe generation time of the electrostatic capacitance keyboard is actually earlier than the membrane keyboard. It can even be said that the membrane keyboard was born on the basis of the electrostatic capacitance keyboard.
Speaking of the electrostatic capacitance keyboard, we must mention that the KeyTronic company is a veteran in the field of keyboards and has created many of the best in the world; the quality is well known in Europe, America, and Japan because of the relationship between sales channels and spending power. Not too many people know.
Established in 1969, it was the world's first company to manufacture office-used PC keyboards. The world's first keyboard factory using a USB interface, an electrostatic keyboard (also a capacitor keyboard) was first made by Keytronic (referred to as KT);
KT has 40 patents and runs through every keyboard industry, including spring switch technology, capacitive switch technology, laser laser printing technology, laminating technology, notebook keyboard, optical letter recognition technology, optical mouse technology, voice recognition technology, fingerprints Recognition technology, wireless keyboard technology.
At that time, the computer was not yet popular, the cost of the electrostatic keypad was high, and the workmanship was also very luxurious. However, with the popularity of computers, expensive keyboards were not affordable for everyone, so KT abandoned the continued manufacturing of electrostatic keypads and put its core technology into practice. Sold to Topre, which is now Realforce (RF), KT began production of membrane keyboards, which resulted in the king of a membrane keyboard.
Nowadays, the electrostatic capacitance keyboard is sought after by many people. The feel of the Q bomb is indeed reluctant to leave, but its high falsity makes many people discourage. To be honest, I like the feeling of electrostatic capacitance, but I like the sound of the blue axis, but I can't have both the fish and the bear's paw.
Third, the tall membrane keyboardMembrane keyboards, in contrast to mechanical keyboards, are in many ways just a low-end keyboard. However, in real time, this is not the case.
The earliest membrane keyboard should be the keyboard that came with the 1979 Atari400. The legendary all-in-one machine asks you not to fear it.
Thin film keyboards have a much lower manufacturing cost for film and silicone cups than mechanical keyboards, and the shape of the film keyboard is more beautiful and novel, and its weight is lighter and it also has certain waterproof performance. In particular, the manufacturing cost, weight, and waterproof performance are inherent disadvantages that cannot be overcome by a mechanical keyboard. It can even be regarded as an upgraded version of a mechanical keyboard. Therefore, the membrane keyboard is still the most used type of keyboard.
Many people think that the keyboard keyboard's hand feel and service life are much lower than those of mechanical keyboards. It is not like this. The old generation of thin film keyboards have a lot of feel, workmanship and classic products such as the classic KeyTronic series. , Dell 8155/8135 series, NMB is Compaq OEM RT XX series, Qunguang OEM IMB KB6323/KB8923 series.
I personally had the privilege of collecting an IBM membrane keyboard. Unfortunately, I did not distort the spring. The appearance, the height of the keycap resembled a mechanical keyboard, and the touch was completely comparable to the MX's blue-axis keyboard. Therefore, the membrane keyboard It's not low-end, it can be tall, just because the later membrane keyboard is more cost-reduced and ultra-thin, leading to low-end film in everyone's view. So please don't despise the membrane keyboard, KeyTronic will make you tremble, maybe there will be more film kings later.
Fourth, high-tech optical axisThe optical axis keyboard began to appear in the public's field of vision in 2015. It is based on mechanical keyboards and uses optical path coupling technology to replace traditional mechanical conduction without direct physical contact. This means that in the traditional The problem of stable hot-plugging, which is difficult to achieve with a mechanical keyboard, can be easily achieved on an optical axis keyboard. This also means that if the shaft body is damaged, it will be more convenient to repair, and it is also the reason for the cafes to love the optical axis. After all, the time and environment for using the Internet cafes is terrible.
At the same time, because of the fastest light transmission, the response delay will be much lower than traditional mechanical keyboards.
However, the optical axis is not like the legend that there is no useful life, and the hand does not change. The traditional MX axis feel changes mainly in the paragraph axis, and most of the optical axis still uses the MX axis structure, so in the paragraph The same feel changes on the shaft. In terms of service life, it is not calculated based on the number of key presses like the mechanical axis, but calculated based on the light-emitting time of the light-emitting components. But the service life is really much longer than the mechanical keyboard.
And now there is a new type of optical axis that can achieve pressure sensing. What is the use of pressure sensing in practice? For example, CSGO only adjusts the pace of speed is only two files, one is the normal running, one is holding down the SHIFT, if the "pressure sensing" technology can be applied by the intensity of the press to determine the speed of the run The experience will be a little better. The racing game bend wheel can be controlled freely. There is no digit board in the PS that can be easily controlled.
Of course, the optical axis is currently not related to a mechanical keyboard. The biggest drawback is that the backlight of the keyboard interferes with the transmission of light from the shaft. This leads to the fact that in this era of optical efficiency, the optical axis The backlight brightness of the keyboard makes it difficult to achieve the same brightness and rich lighting effects as a traditional mechanical keyboard. This is also the reason why custom keyboards have so far not adopted the optical axis.
Overall, the optical axis does have a certain market prospect.
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Careful friends may find that for a long time, I did not talk about the mechanical keyboard, because the mechanical keyboard is the main content, so I will explain it to you in the next few episodes. In the next episode, it should be possible to talk about the most representative mechanical keyboard in history.
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