Keyboard with separate keypad

[mtbc]

The Cherry keyboard that I cleaned does seem to be working much better. The BakkerElkhuizen keyboard that I returned has a refund in progress and its replacement from a different eBay seller seems to work well. The seller did have difficulty providing the correct model number having apparently failed to discover it clearly printed on the keyboard's underside.^*

aldabra asked about keyboards for the left-handed and I can report that this latest BakkerElkhuizen keyboard came with a separate accessory: a numeric keypad that plugs into the main keyboard via an extensible cable such that it can be placed on one's chosen side of the keyboard!

The numeric keypad accessory is a curious thing. It can work standalone as a calculator and has a 00 key. It also has its own NumLock state, slightly imperfect in implementation: if one depresses numbers while its NumLock state does not match the main keyboard's then it toggles the keyboard's state just for a moment and mostly gets it right.

^*Update: Glancing again at eBay I see another seller making the same mistake, their text contradicting their photograph.

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[aldabra]

When K was about 2 I used to take her to Bristol Zoo, and play Civ on my then-laptop while she played on the grass. And it was infuriating because it didn't have a numeric keypad, so eventually I splurged on one of those little stand-alone ones.

"Oh Mummy, Mummy! You got a little keyboard! Just for ME!"

Ahem, no, that wasn't the plan.