Talk:Computer keyboard
From Academic Kids
- In countries speaking other Latin alphabet languages, small variations on QWERTY can be found; the Brazillian Portuguese and Spanish keyboard layouts, for example, while having enough differences to disrupt a QWERTY typist's fluency, have many more keys in common with QWERTY than not.
I should note this experience is based entirely on Microsoft Windows. I have used Spanish layout keyboards in Paraguay, and I sometimes use Windows' Brazillian Portuguese layout to type things on my copy of Windows at home. Perhaps there are other Spanish layouts I'm not aware of. I have seen a Portuguese Portuguese keyboard, and it also looked similar. -- Ryguasu
Would be nice to have something about Dvorak keyboards...
The following statement: "In English speaking countries, the IBM PC keyboard with the QWERTY layout is nearly universal."
is false, as UK readers will no doubt attest. So I killed it, and removed some other stuff WRT "keyboard layouts" better suited to that page.
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Too much in other articles
Someone looking for certain info on keyboards would have to look through the see also section for info about keyboards for information on keyboard layouts. I feel that information about various aspects on the keyboard need to be here, with a link to the main article, so that all of the basic info about keyboards is in one place. Reub2000 07:10, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Happy Hacking keyboards
What would be a good objective name and definition for the happy hacking keyboard link?
I ended up in writing... "Happy Hacking keyboards, appreciated among geeks"
I was aware that this maybe wasn't the best expression and maybe not even objective enought, but it was the best I could come up with.
In 22:44, 8 May 2005 edit, Omegatron changed it to ... "Happy Hacking keyboards, a minimalistic keyboard designed for hackers"
I think this is even worse as it labels the keyboard to hackers. Hacker is a bad word anyway because it has a million meanings and I'm sure that an average wikipedia reader would not understand it, instead she would go blaming happy hacking keyboard users of being a computer criminal. "minimalistic" is also a very inaccurate and misleading expression.
Please give your opinnion on this. --Easyas12c 16:23, 10 May 2005 (UTC)
Names of keys
I would like to read about the names of the keys. For example. what are the names ~ @ # % ^ & { }?
- Keys or characters? What is name of the key labelled "A". Is it "A"-key?
- I have I, i, PSc and SRq under the same key with different meta keys.
- Is this then "I/i/PSc/SRq"-key. I think most keys don't have names.
- How about "return" and "enter" these are maybe names for the keys,
- but they are often missused. Return is called "enter" so often that
- I've even seen keyboards with both keys having label "enter" this is
- bad because it adds confusion. Imagine that some people design and
- manufacture keyboards and not even they know what the names are.
- We should also write about the history. Starting with Commodore 64-,
- Amiga- and terminal-keyboards.
- So shortly. Yes I agree with you. This should be discussed and documented.
- I welcome everyone to join in further discussion. --Easyas12c 18:13, 22 May 2005 (UTC)
Keyboard without irrelvant keys
Is this really notable? I mean, how many people do this? Is there a reference?
Some users find some keys (...) more disturbing than useful.
This doesn't seem very encyclopedic to me. --JiFish(Talk/Contrib) 21:09, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
