Re: Laptop-type keyboard for desktop

Chronos wrote:
After replacing Parish with a small shell script on Wednesday 22 Feb 2006 21:25, the following appeared on stdout:

Ah, I'm not a gamer - unless Freecell counts :-)

Nor am I, truth to tell. I like the odd round of bzflag once in a
while, but that's about it.

Anyway, back to keyboards. I was in Maplin today (I generally avoid
the place, but I needed a 4011 CMOS IC PDQ) and I was surprised to
see, yes, laptop style desktop keyboards. They've got a nice brushed aluminium finish model with a Synaptics touchpad built into it,

This one?
http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=45627&criteria=Full%20Size%20Keyboards&doy=24m2

a black one that feels just like a Toshiba keyboard

This one?
http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=47324&criteria=Full%20Size%20Keyboards&doy=24m2

and a few others. Might be worth checking out if you've a Maplin near
you.

I think there's one in Bristol but I don't like cities, big nasty horrible places /shudder. Plus it would cost me as much in petrol as mail order p+p.

Parish
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