Re: Keyboards with keycaps which are the same shape

Hi Michael,

thanks for the endorsement! - although I suspect that you weren't 
aware that you were doing so. I'm glad that my efforts have provided 
you with a keyboard to your liking :)

Incidentally I've found a USB-PS/2 adaptor that works with these 
keyboards, so if you were to find office work and they were "Dvorak-
unaware", you could maybe convince your new employers to buy an 
additional keyboard and have both plugged in at the same time.

... although of course if you touch-type, then that's less of an 
issue since it doesn't matter how the keys are labelled, of course. 
Except that having a non-QWERTY layout in front of you is a useful 
conversation piece :)

--- In [email protected], "Michael J. Osborne" 
<michaelsfvacc@...> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks a lot. More than a year ago I signed up with this group and 
periodically check it out. I couldn't find, at that time, a hard 
wired keyboard to my liking and price. But everybody DID give me a 
lot of good input. My old Dvorak had gone on the fritz. You 
apparently DID find them. So I took your three keyboards and did a 
Google search (up to this point in time I have been using XP's 
software configuration) and I purchased the one at: 
http://www.typocheck.co.uk/dvorak/buy.html  This is great! Just what 
I had been looking for a year ago. I've been typing DVORAK for ten 
years now. Totally forgotten Qwerty. Too bad for me if I find work 
where I need to use their PC. These years I'm homebound taking care 
of my Alzheimered  father. 
> 
> Thanks again.
> 
> 
>  
> zootle <zootle@...> wrote:                               Hi.
>  
>  I'm new to this list, apologies if there's already a discussion 
about 
>  this topic (if there is, could you point me to it, please?).
>  
>  I'm trying to source keyboards that have keycaps all the same 
shape, 
>  for conversion, primarily to Dvorak (I've started recently to sell 
>  these, with some small success so far) but obviously such 
keyboards 
>  will be of interest to anyone who wishes to try an alternative 
layout.
>  
>  I have so far found just three keyboards that are reasonably 
priced 
>  and fit the bill. These are, in order of my personal preference of 
>  quality:
>  
>  1. Logitech Y-SU61 Deluxe 
>  2. Tesco 'Value' keyboard
>  3. Colorsit KB-1807 
>  
>  (#1 and #3 are available through my 'Broadband for your Fingers' 
>  eBid.net store at http://uk.four.ebid.net/perl/main.cgi?mo=user-
>  store&title=Broadband-for-your-Fingers - the Tesco one costs just 
>  £4.45 from - surprisingly - Tescos).
>  
>  These are all PS/2 models (which possibly explains why such 
keyboards 
>  have become so inexpensive in recent months?). I have been trying 
to 
>  find some USB equivalents, even though these are likely to be more 
>  costly. 
>  
>  Does anyone here know of any such keyboards, PS/2 or USB?
>