{"id":383,"date":"2007-11-02T23:32:16","date_gmt":"2007-11-03T04:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=383"},"modified":"2007-11-04T21:29:10","modified_gmt":"2007-11-05T02:29:10","slug":"the-10-worst-pc-keyboards-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/383\/the-10-worst-pc-keyboards-of-all-time","title":{"rendered":"The 10 Worst PC Keyboards of All Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/id,139100\/article.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/pcworld_worstkeyboards_small.jpg\" alt=\"The 10 Worst PC Keyboards of All Time\" class=\"alignright\" \/><\/a>My first feature on PCWorld.com is now live &#8212; <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/id,139100\/article.html\" target=\"_blank\">The 10 Worst PC Keyboards of All Time<\/a><\/em>.  The article started as a pet project of mine over a year ago, although it took far longer to complete than I expected.  Between other projects, I anguished and wrestled with myself over the final ten entries after considering (and using) twenty-plus keyboards in detail.  Perhaps I put too much work into it, but I wanted to create the most definitive list I could.  The end result will never be <em>truly<\/em> definitive, of course, since any list like this &#8212; by its very nature &#8212; is based on subjective criteria defined by the author.<\/p>\n<p>The final work turned out to be much longer than the version published, but the pictures turned out so well (taken by both myself and Steven Stengel of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldcomputers.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">oldcomputers.net<\/a>), that PC World decided to turn it into a slide show.  The result, I think, speaks for itself.  Still, an unabridged version might make it to the Net some day, with more info on my ranking and inclusion criteria.  Just so you know, I considered only non-laptop QWERTY keyboards that shipped with a computer in the United States for the list.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to thank <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldcomputers.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steven Stengel<\/a> for help with the pictures, and especially <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pcworld.com\/techlog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Harry McCracken<\/a> of PC World for doing an excellent job of condensing my lengthy epic for a mainstream audience.  Last, but not least, thanks to the PC World staff, who did a great job of putting it all together.<\/p>\n<p>Now that the love-fest is over, you can check out the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/id,139100\/article.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.  Let me know what you think.   And while you&#8217;re at it, feel free to tell us which keyboards you&#8217;d nominate for the worst (or the best) of all time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first feature on PCWorld.com is now live &#8212; The 10 Worst PC Keyboards of All Time. The article started as a pet project of mine over a year ago, although it took far longer to complete than I expected. Between other projects, I anguished and wrestled with myself over the final ten entries after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16,21,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-computer-design","category-news-current-events","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}