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heiowge
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While it is unfair for manufacturers to lumber us with a windows logo on the super key, it would be just as unfair to put a penguin on it.
So what should the super key have on it so as not to be unfair?
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ᶆ what about the Greek lower case m?
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Ram
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You mean you still use a keyboard in this day and age of the touch screen
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| We can solve two things at once by replacing the Microsoft logo with the 'any' key label. |
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or some other symbol
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External_Floppy
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What's unfair about this? 
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Nuke
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| Ram wrote: | | You mean you still use a keyboard in this day and age of the touch screen |
I am still using not just any old keyboard, but a classic IBM AT keyboard that is at least 20 years old. At that age it does not have a "Windows" key of course 
I have about 6 of these keyboards in store. They were thrown out at work when we replaced IBM PS/2 machines with something newer. I cannot understand why everyone except me allowed their AT keyboard to be taken away and replaced by one clearly inferior. - you would think that engineers would know better (ditto the Microsoft mice replaced by dirt-cheap tat). I kept mine, and rescued half a dozen from the skip for good measure. They are pieces of engineering and will last for ever (or until mobo's no longer provide the PS/2 connector). They are superb - although old and used, they now fetch anything up to £100 on ebay.
http://compare.ebay.co.uk/like/300763430922?var=lv<yp=AllFixedPriceItemTypes&var=sbar&adtype=pla#
I have seen them severely criticised as "heavy". So what? It sits on a desk all the time, I do not carry it around.
Another advantage is that the connecting cable can unplug from the keyboard. I have two pc's under my desk with a cable from each. I can just swap plugs to access either PC with the same keyboard.
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el chapulín
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| The "keyboards" you buy these days are terrible... I would like a keyboard without the two windows menu keys, but can't get hold of one and though I'd really like one of the old school heavy duty keyboards with spiral cable, I can't afford to pay that much for one. |
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Hrm, one of those keys says "Props". As in mad?
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| M-Saunders wrote: | Hrm, one of those keys says "Props". As in mad?
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Nope, if you press that button the computer falls over
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