IBM used to use rectangular keyboards around 6 1/2" x 18", with
number pad on right side.  Don't see anything much smaller
lately...  We throw a lot of them out as new stuff comes in.

GeneralStuff wrote:
> I understand about the "number pad" keys - I use the Home, End Arrows, etc.  But the extra bank of keys inserted between the main keyboard and the keypad keys (duplicate Insert, Home and arrows, etc - ALL duplications of the keypad keys right next to them) I have NEVER used - they were added after I was already accustomed to the normal keboard and are totally useless as far as I am concerned.  I would surely like to find a keyboard without them.       --AnnaSummers
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Grossman
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 9:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] small keyboard
>
>
> Before switching, I'd suggest that you work with a laptop for a few days.
> You may discover that you like the larger keyboard after all.
>
> One of the main complaints some people make about laptops is the
> inconvenient keyboard, which lacks the duplicated, spread-out keys on the
> right side.
>
> David Grossman
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>>It seems that keyboards get bigger and bigger with huge blank areas all
>
> around them, like they are trying to make them "macho" or something.  I am
> so sick of this LONG keyboard that stretches out to the right (half again)
> with duplicated keys so that I have to shift the keyboard way over to the
> right to get the actual letters centered in front of my monitor.  This, of
> course, shifts my mouse WAY off to the right, which tires and hurts my right
> arm.
>
>>Does anyone know where I could get a small, short, narrow keyboard without
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> all of those duplicate keys spread out on the right side?
>
>>Thanks,
>>AnnaSummers
>

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