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I just want a keyboard without a numpad

Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 07, 2006 04:15 PM
Does every keyboard really needs 2 sets of 0-9 numbers ?

Keyboards were invented before the mouse and don't take into account the desk area and hand/arm placment involved with "modern" usage.

I want a keyboard with the numpad and everything else chopped off or relocated after the end of the QWERTY. We lose the keyboard arrows (name ?) and the Numpad. We relocate the 2 blocks of Print Screen & Home sets between the F1 -F10 row and the ~1-0 Backspace row

It would look sorta like this

F1 F2 F3 to F12 !
Home End Del PGUp PGDn Ins PrntScrn Scroll Pause
~1234567890-=Backspace
Tab Q W E ---- O P[]\
SNIP
SNIP
Ctrl Alt Some key Spacebar Some key Alt Ctrl

Dang, a picture would tell a 100 words here<nobr> <wbr></nobr>...

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