Patrick wrote regarding 'Re: [SLE] Odd (to me) addressing question' on Tue, Sep 21 at 14:27:
* Leendert Meyer
[09-21-04 10:57]: How long did the trackball last? And what went wrong?
first was about 3 years but the second only about 18 months. Should send them back to Kensington, supposed to be life-time warranty. Really liked the second best, four buttons and the ball and the buttons were individually programmable.
I'm still using a GrateWeigh 2000 keyboard with the extra function keys on the left and the nw-ne-se-sw arrow keys and every key programmable w/o software (and no windoz keys - too old).
Picture a whole computer lab full of those keyboards. Then picture the students using them being 1) computer illiterate and 2) at a community college. Now picture the nightmare for the admin running those labs. "Sometimes the 'k' key types an 'l'", etc... I hate those programmable Gateway keyboards. I'm gonna have bad dreams tonight, now. Thanks a lot. :) --Danny, once stuck with lots of legacy hardware and no budget to replace it :(