- I do wish I'd kept the keyboard from my old IBM PC1 because it was a "proper" keyboard with a positive action like a typewriter's!

Dear Cap Kiwi,
Are you using one of those new double-side, curved thingamy keyboards?? When I replaced my old PC with current one a curved keyboard came with it but I insisted on a typewriter keyboard. They had them but I was told they were not going to be made much longer ... so I bought an extra!
As a five-finger-learned-at-a-newspaper typist I find it easiest and fastest to use. When I was really churning out the copy I occasionally jammed the ball on my IBM typewriter ... just too fast for it. Something that never happened to the touch typist and a trick that astounded the IBM maintainance guy!
My sympathy.
wow