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Title: Filco TK Pad!
Post by: captain on Sun, 04 March 2012, 09:24:41

This would be a great addition to a TenKeyLess Filco!   [strike] I don't find the in the USA, alas. [/strike]

http://www.filcochina.com/Products_TKPad.asp

Found it!  
http://www.amazon.com/Majestouch-TenKeyPad-Tactile-Numberpad-FKB22MB/dp/B000MGBPNI

There is a TKPad company out of Texas; GoldTouch. I wonder which is better.  They have a Mac and a Windoze version, but aside from an extra key, and different codes sent, I can't get a straight answer from them.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003Q9HAOG

Title: Filco TK Pad!
Post by: Human on Sun, 04 March 2012, 10:24:06

Quote from: captain;534853

This would be a great addition to a TenKeyLess Filco!   [strike] I don't find the in the USA, alas. [/strike]

http://www.filcochina.com/Products_TKPad.asp

Found it!  
http://www.amazon.com/Majestouch-TenKeyPad-Tactile-Numberpad-FKB22MB/dp/B000MGBPNI

There is a TKPad company out of Texas; GoldTouch. I wonder which is better.  They have a Mac and a Windoze version, but aside from an extra key, and different codes sent, I can't get a straight answer from them.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003Q9HAOG

IIRC, in the buying guide wiki once listed a Goldtouch/Kinesis Numpad rebrand, infact it is a generic with no branding one.
It is quite cheap(around 15/20 USD, not too sure) and being sold by an ebay seller from Hong Kong.
Though, the listing seems to be expired, not sure if there still anyway to get them this cheap.

Title: Filco TK Pad!
Post by: captain on Sun, 04 March 2012, 10:35:32

The GoldTouch uses MX Browns, I believe. I asked if they could do Blues, and never heard back from them. :-P

Title: Filco TK Pad!
Post by: Human on Sun, 04 March 2012, 10:45:49

Quote from: captain;534907

The GoldTouch uses MX Browns, I believe. I asked if they could do Blues, and never heard back from them. :-P

I do come across GoldTouch Numpad with MX black when I surfing through taobao for 2nd hand junks. That should mean that they existed.
Though I do feel that they(black) are on the rare side as most of them are browns.
(http://img02.taobaocdn.com/imgextra/i2/43225675/T2pn07XghaXXXXXXXX_!!43225675.jpg)
http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=11020U0p.3-a715N.h-4ovqkx&id=12789827232&

Title: Filco TK Pad!
Post by: nhwhaup on Sun, 04 March 2012, 11:50:33

I have the exact same one that you show from the China website.  It has the brown switches and I do use it to compliment my Filco TKL with reds.  Really wish the number pad also had the reds but it serves the purpose.  If I remember correctly I bought my Filco TKL on amazon and the number pad from The Keyboard Company.

Title: Filco TK Pad!
Post by: silat on Mon, 05 March 2012, 14:24:21

10Key?

Title: Filco TK Pad!
Post by: IvanIvanovich on Mon, 05 March 2012, 14:40:12

I had a goldtouch, it had MX blacks. In my opinion neither is better, but the Kinesis is. Yes it is technically the exact same thing as the goldtouch, but with one nice difference, a 2 unit 0 key. Much easier to use all those leftover Cherry numpad keysets:thumb:

Title: Filco TK Pad!
Post by: Typhaeon on Mon, 05 March 2012, 14:45:42

B... but it has more than ten keys.

Title: Filco TK Pad!
Post by: Typhaeon on Mon, 05 March 2012, 15:00:54

'I guess "seventeenkeyless" just doesn't have the same ring to it.  I'm voting the acronym be supplanted by "SKL", if only because there are so many other acronyms with which to confuse hapless readers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SKL).  For example, are you buying a harmless keypad peripheral, or Kaiser Wilhelm's entire naval admiralty?  These are the important questions in life.

Or "StKL", since there doesn't appear to be any Wikipedia entry with that letter combination.  It probably stands for something in German, though.

Title: Filco TK Pad!
Post by: boredgunner on Mon, 05 March 2012, 18:30:57

On the subject of numberpads/tenkeypads, this one isn't Filco but is it any good?  Their keyboards are listed in the buying guide so I guess it might be.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16823166110

There is no direct note on the switch type it uses, but the description suggests Cherry MX Blues.  Their website also shows a picture of a numberpad with the keys removed, and Cherry MX Blue switches under.  The price is good so if nobody has used it, I might try it.

Title: Filco TK Pad!
Post by: squarebox on Mon, 05 March 2012, 18:51:54

Isn't TK = Team Kill?

I wonder what's happening to the current generation of homo sapiens.

Title: Filco TK Pad!
Post by: boredgunner on Mon, 05 March 2012, 19:48:22

Quote from: ripster;536217

Well, just because it is in the WW Shopping Wiki doesn't mean it has my seal of approval.  I have all the Duckys and even Qpad in there.

The keyboards had so-so reviews.

I might have to take the leap of faith then!

Title: Filco TK Pad!
Post by: captain on Tue, 06 March 2012, 14:09:07

Quote from: boredgunner;536278

I might have to take the leap of faith then!

Get the Addesso and the GoldTouch and do a comparison review!  :-)