From: eliddell@no.patience.for.spam
On Wed, 17 Sep 2014 11:40:00 +0200, A. Tina Hall wrote:
> Michelle Bottorff wrote:
>
>
>> Apropo of nothing...
>
>> ..two of my eybord eys eep randomy stopping woring. Guess which ones.
>> I've mosty been copying and pasting the missing etters, but it's a rea
>> pain. :(
>
> You have my sympathy.
>
> My last working no-windoze-keys keyboard had the habit to randomly do no
> or double 's'. I finally caved in a few weeks ago and asked an
> aquaintance who'd offered to give me an old keyboard (with windoze keys)
> to lend it to me to test how bad they interfere.
>
> Works out well enough, though I'm contemplating asking a friend how to
> disable the windoze keys.
>
> I am planning to get a new one one of these days that is closer to what
> I'd like to have to type (low, highly sensitive, no noise keys,
> preferably with a build that lets no liquid or other things inside).
>
> Are simple keyboards that expensive these days though, that you can't
> get a new one? Or are you used to your paticular one and can't get a
> same-make one easily or at all? Belated thought: Is it a laptop?
If you want a new keyboard and don't care what you get, you can get
one for $10-$15 (sorry, no idea what it would be in Euros). The
expensive ones can be more than ten times that, though.
If you're willing to clean the keys, you can pick a used one up from
a junk shop for under $5. It's likely to be PS2 rather than USB,
though. That's where my current keyboard came from, for $3.99Cdn.
(You can still get keyboards without Windows keys, too, but it isn't
cheap--the only company I've found that still makes them is a small
one in the States. ~$70 + shipping.)
E. Liddell
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