Or you could just wait for Time to take its toll on the letters. I’ve worn the markings off a few of the keys on my keyboard. A, S, E, and L, in case you’re wondering.
What are you selling?
William Gibson in his Sprawl series makes a couple of offhand references to uber-hackers with blank keyboards, the implication being that they’re too cool and experienced to need the little letters, so perhaps they’re aiming at the retro-cyberpunk demographic.
Seven
May 28, 2005, 11:51pm
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Mangetout:
Production line manager: Dammit, the slikscreen process has failed and all the keycaps have come out blank!Head of manufacturing: Well, halt the line, back it up and just run them though againForeman: It’s worse than that; see, I was taking my break and the process has assembled and finished six thousand units - they’re lined up for packagingProduction line manager: This is a frickin’ disaster . It’s not going to be much cheaper to rework them than it would be to scrap them and start again
DAVID: It’s not going to say anything?
IAN: No, it’s not going to say anything.
NIGEL: It’s going to be like this, all black…
IAN: No, it’s going to be that simple, beautiful, classic!
NIGEL: I think he’s right, there is something about this, that’s that’s so black, it’s like; “How much more black could this be?” and the answer is: “None, none… more black.”
Seven:
DAVID: It’s not going to say anything?
IAN: No, it’s not going to say anything.
NIGEL: It’s going to be like this, all black…
IAN: No, it’s going to be that simple, beautiful, classic!
NIGEL: I think he’s right, there is something about this, that’s that’s so black, it’s like; “How much more black could this be?” and the answer is: “None, none… more black.”
And the function keys go up to 13.
Pasta
May 29, 2005, 6:32am
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<begin useless post. my apologies.>
Yes, I did. No, they didn’t. (Unless I’m really missing something.)
Cisco
May 29, 2005, 8:26am
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Pasta:
<begin useless post. my apologies.>
Well, there’s the OP:
Check out post #29 while you’re at it.
Derleth:
What I’d really want is a keyboard with lots of keys and programmable bindings. I can rebind keys at the OS level but it would be nice if the keyboard was capable of meeting me halfway, and an Emacs geek can never have enough bucky bits to play with. Having Control, Alt, Meta, Hyper, Super, and Front with F1-F20 sounds about right.
Not quite everything you wanted, but here’s mine the MCK-142 Pro . I don’t know what the keys over the top do, but it’s got the function keys on the left hand side and I’m not functioning without them.