Are these caps PBT?

that thumbnail really got me asking “what the fuck”, not gonna lie

I found this deal near my area of NEC Oval keyboard i dunno what model but he is selling is for 10 bucks im wondering if its a good deal or not. Everything is working except 4-5 keycaps are missing.

I could instantly tell it was from the 90s by the cover design of the manual.

I wonder why there is no more keyboards with that layout, that is better in gaming. With that mouse aspect in video, you can also turn numpad to macro keyboard, or use it directly instead of WASD-keys.

But it is better if you use lot of Excel or similar. In normal layout you have to take your hand off from mouse if you want to use numpad, this of course slows down your working. If numpad is left, you can use mouse and numpad. Of course you have to learn new coordination, but that only makes good for your brains 🙂

I’d put the numpad on the right and the nav keys on the left.

2:30 The thing is that those “left-handed keyboards” are actually more like right-handed keyboards, and have been since at least the mid-’90s. Back in 1985 the Model M was still a right-handed keyboard. When the keyboard is the only input device on most IBM PC users’ desks, why not have the nav cluster and numpad in reach of most people’s strong hand rather than their weak one? But nowadays, when the mouse is fighting the numpad and nav cluster for the prime space just next to the alphanumeric cluster on the strong-hand side, it’s pretty clear that the mouse should not be coming dead last. One obvious likely exception is if you’re using a touchpad in front of the spacebar as your main pointer-input method. Still, the fact that the “right-handed” AT layout is still ubiquitous is basically pure cargo-cultism: it’s not even like QWERTY vs. Dvorak, Colemak or whatever, where the switching costs are steep and the benefits are debatable.

3:38 In a new keyboard with a similar num-pad arrangement it might be worthwhile to bigassify the Enter key a bit, adding maybe a half-unit of width to make it a bit easier to hit with the left-hand thumb.

Are there any boards which stack, say, a nav cluster, function cluster and numpad vertically above the alphanumeric cluster? That’s another configuration which the Switchboard’s baseboard design excludes 4:04 . I see there’s at least one eight-row ortholinear monster out there https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=75111.msg1864680#msg1864680 and any number of eight-row ortholinear POS boards, but ten rows would be more like it … I suppose one could put a five-row all-1U ortholinear keyboard behind a normal 60% keyboard (stagger and all).

I wonder why they didn’t make the modules wireless? They had the technology, we could have rebuilt him. (But then they might have called it the six million dollar keyboard). Which is slightly out of my price range.

Mmmmm an ALPS board that actually uses a standard ANSI layout, that means you’d actually be able to fully utilize something like the sets that Tai-Hao makes; unlike the totally non-standard 75% layout board I have.

I’m right handed and prefer to use the numpad with my left, so this board is intriguing. And it’s a really nice-looking keyboard! Thank you for the review!

My mouth is watering…an ALPs board and configurable! Shut up and take my money!

In all in seriousness, great review as always!

My preferred layout is having the numpad on the right side of the mouse. Macropad – Keyboard – Mouse – Numpad. Or the 1800 layout.

However, I really don’t get the tkl thing. A numpad is way more useful than the nav cluster, and can be used both ways. Like the Vortex Vibe, Cooler Master M and whatever.
That’s kind of what’s keeping me from buying the Leopold fc980m. The fact that they have Ins, Del, PgUp and PgDown on the numpad but still have their own dedicated buttons on the top right. Those would have been better off being PrtScr and some others. Maybe programmable even.

I really wish there were more modular keyboards, with different modules aimed at different uses.

Numpad on the left makes no sense for me. There’s so much muscle memory involved, plus in games… you want to use WASD with your left hand and your right hand on the numpad controlling your helicopter or whatever.

I thought I was the only one who cared about using the numpad Enter with the mouse-hand thumb.

@ 6:24 “Systems of measurement invented after the bronze age…” HAHAHA! 😀

reminds me a bit of the old sidewinder x6. there the num pad could snap on to either side using strong magnets. i still use mine often when working with CAD.

Nice idea, but it doesn’t really help, since you are forced to use the ‘base’ which is whatever size it is, and doesn’t change.
A stand alone numpad is still best, if you need one. I don’t need one at home, so most of my boards that aren’t vintage, are TKL or smaller.