Re: Laptop-type keyboard for desktop

Chronos wrote:
After replacing Parish with a small shell script on Wednesday 22 Feb
2006 19:55, the following appeared on stdout:

Reason? Nobody seems to make a half decent desktop keyboard anymore.

You're not wrong. I still have three old IBM keyboards here, the one and
only Model M is the one I'm typing on. If you find any keyboards
without Windoze keys, I would be interested. Cherry Linux [1] keyboards
aside, that is.


Hehe according to wikipedia, type Ms are still being made - including a Linux version. They are made by Unicomp based on the later Lexmark-built Type Ms.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Model_M_Keyboard

Parish
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