Keyboard with separate keypad
Apr. 5th, 2019 06:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mtbcThe 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
*Update: Glancing again at eBay I see another seller making the same mistake, their text contradicting their photograph.
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
00key. 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.
