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Re: NMB RT8255CW+ Split Spacebar
« Reply #1 on: Wed, 11 April 2018, 20:17:55 »
SOLD!

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Re: NMB RT8255CW+ Split Spacebar
« Reply #2 on: Wed, 11 April 2018, 20:18:45 »
And sold very quickly. Anyone here get it?
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Re: [Sold] NMB RT8255CW+ Split Spacebar
« Reply #3 on: Sun, 15 April 2018, 02:47:08 »
So that's really on the level—a left-thumb Backspace? It must've been a custom order for someone who made an unusually large number of typing errors.
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Re: [Sold] NMB RT8255CW+ Split Spacebar
« Reply #4 on: Sun, 15 April 2018, 03:53:32 »
So that's really on the level—a left-thumb Backspace? It must've been a custom order for someone who made an unusually large number of typing errors.
No, this is a known thing. It's probably most famous on the IBM M15, but there were also well-known NMB models like these that had it. They always go immediately, as it's a sought-after feature.
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Re: [Sold] NMB RT8255CW+ Split Spacebar
« Reply #5 on: Sun, 15 April 2018, 09:50:50 »

—a left-thumb Backspace?


My late father-in-law was an accountant and split space bar was his preferred keyboard style. I think that they started making them in the mid-late-1990s.
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Re: [Sold] NMB RT8255CW+ Split Spacebar
« Reply #6 on: Sun, 15 April 2018, 20:56:17 »
So what was the logic behind the thumb-operated BS?

This keyboard would be wasted on Donald Trump, BTW, as he never retracts anything. However, a "blame the fake media" key would be handy.
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