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What puzzles me is that even a simple USB hub (so that you can plug in a mouse or a pen) seems beyond most manufacturers. A few months ago, I managed to snag a
by ableal 17y ago
What puzzles me is that even a simple USB hub (so that you can plug in a mouse or a pen) seems beyond most manufacturers. A few months ago, I managed to snag a keyboard with two USB ports and a scroll-wheel (the SlimStarPro from Genius), which promptly vanished from local retailer shelves.
Not having reason to care about key rollover issues, I'd gladly trade the top rows of special-function buttons for a single small trackball in the wrist-rest area (as seen in early laptops such as the Apple Powerbook 100 of the 90s). I suppose it's "inconceivable" to sell that nowadays ...
- randallsquared 17y agoI suppose it's "inconceivable" to sell that nowadays .. Did you try Googling? I felt lucky, and on that page was this link: http://www.fentek-ind.com/kbemmtbusb2b.htm http://www.fentek-ind.com/kbemmtbusb2b.htm
- ableal 17y agoThanks, appreciated. Not completely extinct, then - but it seems to live in a quite small niche ;-)