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I'll bet your mouse gets pretty overworked, too.
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How many ribs does that beast have?
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Only 11 pairs. The 12th pair evolved into a USB lead.
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I guess it's a choice between the cheap £5 keyboards or something more pricey and substantial. If your letters are rubbing off then they must be printed or engraved legends. Better quality keyboards use a 'two-shot moulding' process whereby the letters are formed a bit like a stick of rock - you can wear down the plastic but the legend will always remain.Nemesis said:
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This one says 'Microsoft' on it.
I don't think I've ever paid a fiver for a keyboard. However, maybe I should in future.
I don't think I've ever paid a fiver for a keyboard. However, maybe I should in future.
If your touch typing is up to it then the solution is a Das Keyboard
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My touch typing consists as it has for several decades of two fingers (quite rapid two fingers) and I ain't gonna change now.
I learned touch-typing and worked in offices in the days of those hefty old manual machines. Electric ones were an improvement, but nothing compared with the speeds I can achieve with my computer. There was no problem adjusting my 'touch' to the sensitivity of the electronic keyboard.
We only had to replace one, and that was when our daughter (old enough to know better) tipped a cup of coffee over it.
We only had to replace one, and that was when our daughter (old enough to know better) tipped a cup of coffee over it.
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You probably don't spend as much time as I do writing furious letters and e-mails re nasty developments.
Touch typing would have been more useful a skill to have learned at school than Latin I have to say, but it's too late now.
Touch typing would have been more useful a skill to have learned at school than Latin I have to say, but it's too late now.
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I have a rather splendid extra long carriage (for doing finance stuff) Imperial typewriter, glass sides, round keys, cork covered carriage and all. I also have a typewriter eraser (round) to accompany it, Tippex being not the correct period accessory.
My mum learned how to touch type on it.
Spreadsheets and delete key not even considered in those days.
My mum learned how to touch type on it.
Spreadsheets and delete key not even considered in those days.
In my day it was called a 'brief carriage'. All lawyers' offices had them.
Legal documents had, of course, to be free of any alterations or corrections and I have bitter memories of making a mistake on the last line of an otherwise impeccable screed. The only way I could avoid calamity was to go into a sort of trance.
Legal documents had, of course, to be free of any alterations or corrections and I have bitter memories of making a mistake on the last line of an otherwise impeccable screed. The only way I could avoid calamity was to go into a sort of trance.
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I was an 80's home computer geek. I was taught to touch type on a manual typewriter by an elderly matron used to training typing pool candidates for Alliance & Leicester down the hill from school (same school as Marianne Suhr BTW). About 3 guys took typing and about 50 girls, but sadly it didn't help my prospects. And boy did manual keyboards make your little fingers hurt.
And I'd just like to add...
jkjkjk dfdfdf dfg dfg hjk hjk dfjk jk jk dfdfdfd
And I'd just like to add...
jkjkjk dfdfdf dfg dfg hjk hjk dfjk jk jk dfdfdfd
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That's easy for you to say...
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Ah, such magnificent beasts!
My first office tripewriter was not a lot more modern than the one pictured above - a magnificent green Imperial with heavy rubber platten and an action that made a deep 'thunking' sound when the keys were pressed and an even deeper crashing thud when the shift key was released and the whole action dropped back down. An office full of those going full pelt as an edition deadline loomed was an awesome sound, and you had to be able to lipread like the millgirls of old to have any hope of a coherent conversation.
I do like the look of that DAS keyboard though - it reminds me of the ones the Army used to use which had blank keys to encourage touch-typing. Looks to be a really well-made bit of kit.
My first office tripewriter was not a lot more modern than the one pictured above - a magnificent green Imperial with heavy rubber platten and an action that made a deep 'thunking' sound when the keys were pressed and an even deeper crashing thud when the shift key was released and the whole action dropped back down. An office full of those going full pelt as an edition deadline loomed was an awesome sound, and you had to be able to lipread like the millgirls of old to have any hope of a coherent conversation.
I do like the look of that DAS keyboard though - it reminds me of the ones the Army used to use which had blank keys to encourage touch-typing. Looks to be a really well-made bit of kit.
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Presumably they were more interested in the fact that you touch-typed, than what you touch-typed!Gervase said:
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Well, it can't have been all wrong, as no stray ordnance was launched into Lowestoft or Thetford!
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I'm considering one of those voice recognition thingys so it can all be done with no hands.