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[conuly]

Ugh. My keyboard home row is completely busted. Using the onscreen keyboard, but I hate it. Hope nobody expects replies today : (

The laptop is already held together with spit, so I will get a USB keyboard for now and save for a new PC.

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[gatheringrivers]

I got one of these, if you like something about the size of a cheap keyboard, plus a keyboard skin.

You can also get ACTUAL refurb "Model M" keyboards, but they run around $300 on up now, and the Unicomp ones are around $100 because they ARE new (and use USB connectors, rather than adapters.) :(

Basically, either is like "the last keyboard you'll ever need to buy". :)

[conuly]

If I'd had a keyboard cover, it would've been better. Dangit, I know that.

[gatheringrivers]

Oh, i wasn't trying to imply that you didn't know that. :)

I have a helluva time FINDING keyboard skins to fit the keyboards *I like*. (Which is, "as close to buckling spring type" as I can get.)

I mentioned the Unicomp keyboard + skin because they make the skins to fit the particular keyboard you order. It's not a third party thing.

[conuly]

Do you know, there are people who have so little preference as to the sort of keyboard they use that they don't even know what the various types are called? These people, I'm sure, are also the sort not to get very excited about books detailing the use of typefaces in the MTA.