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Re: Keyboard wear

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From: Rod Speed
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 17:13
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Disz <mein00@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> what do you need the letters for???

Basically the stuff like CD keys during an
install where no one touchtypes that stuff.

To a lesser extent with code.

> id have thought that if you do that much
> typing you would be able to touch-type.

Yeah, been able to for quite a few decades now.

> ive been touch typing since i was ten.

Yeah, me too, learnt it over a single weekend,
forget whether it was a long weekend or not, while
still in school, because no one could read my writing.


> Rod Speed <rod_speed@yahoo.com> wrote
>> kony <kony@insightbb.com> wrote
>>> Rod Speed <rod_speed@yahoo.com> wrote

>>>>>> Doesnt anyone do proper double shot
>>>>>> injection moulded keytops anymore ?

>>>>> I think Logitech makes the best keyboards.

>>>> Do they have the same problem tho, the letters wearing off ?

>>> My Logitech Cordless iTouch keyboard has worn fairly
>>> well, has lasted longer than some modern keyboards
>>> I've had, but it too has the characters printed on the
>>> top, not injection molded.  It's not going to "last for years".

>> OK, the obvious thing to do is make sure its covered by years
>> of warranty and shaft them on that when the lettering has worn
>> enough so that its not usable anymore on some of the keys.

>> And buy it locally from an operation thats going to be around
>> for that long, to make it easy to shaft them on the warranty.

>> Our consumer law makes the seller legally liable in the first instance.
>> You can choose to use the manufacturer/importer if you want to.
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