Out of the Blue [Dec 07, 2004, 09:56 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
I just need to vent a little here. I ruined a keyboard with a coffee spill
yesterday, and contrary to the logic that might suggest a cheap replacement was
in order for an item that had suffered such a carelessness-related demise, I
picked up a fancy Microsoft wireless desktop as a replacement. Now I am
suffering with a couple of inconveniences using it, because they have decided
that the small array of keys above the arrow keys (home, insert, etc.) needed
rearranging. Specifically, the six keys are now five, and instead of being two
rows and three columns, the keys are now in two columns, with the insert key
removed from the mix and placed on the top row to share a key with PrtScrn and
SysRq (talk about marginalized -- I guess some folks find accidentally hitting
Insert as welcome as the Caps Lock). This all completely messes with my
instinctive use of all these keys, and why? Because they decided the delete key
needed to be twice as tall as it was for some reason. Also, the 12 function keys
that are traditionally laid out in three groups of four are now four groups of
three. WTF?
Nothing like a little change for change's sake. Too bad, because the keyboard
has the nicest action I've ever used... but I still may have to return this. We
shall see.
I guess today marks the true start of the holiday season, as the Festival of
Lights begins tonight at sundown. Happy Chanukah!
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like the standard keyboard layout myself. I'm still using a keyboard that has no windows key! Got it off a Compaq five years ago.
AMEN! I still have my Packard Bell keyboard from 1994.
My favorite was the AnyKey keyboard by Gateway back in about '93 ???. Had 8 arrow keys (including diagonals) and 2 sets of function keys (one along the top, one along the left side, and programmable macro keys. These things were awesome.
Found a site regarding the macros/remapping capabilities:
http://emerson13.home.att.net/AnyKey_Instructions.htm
Hey, here's a couple photos:
http://search.ebay.com/Anykey-Keyboard_W0QQsokeywordredirectZ1QQsonewuserZ1QQxpufuZx
Sadly, it's too big for my uses now (it was an oversized keyboard) and got really grungy over the years. Just using a cheapie $7 keyboard now, wanting one of those new Saitek ones.
http://www.saitekusa.com/usa/prod/gamerskey.htm
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