Mom said she could use a compact keyboard at work, to save desk space. Her office is primarily pen-and-paper.
So I picked up this
Siig USB Mini Multimedia keyboard for her. Nice ANSI layout, scissor switches, works fine.
You know what happens next.
RING RING RING"Hi honey, I'm using this keyboard, but I need your help with something specific. When I am typing a word like 'SEPTEMBER', the S and the E come up okay, but the P is a number instead..."
So we figure out how to press NumLk on this board. It's "Fn-Insert" so the key combo must be explained.
Five minutes later:
RING RING"Hi honey, now it's working better but there's still another problem with my Word. It used to be that I could place the cursor in the middle of a word or a sentence, and then if I type something, it would be added there, but now it's not working. The darn thing erases whatever was there before, why is it doing that?"
The unfortunate overlap of Insert and NumLk has led her to put Word into overwrite-mode....
And now you know why 104-key boards are universal.
Yo momma's got a high TCO.
