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RF mini-keyboard?
Brax:
Well I sure want one. i'm in if someone can pull it off!
kalkin:
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Good question. I guess the wire would have to be quite long to reach from the bottom of the cabinet where the computer is, through the keyboard shelf just below the control panel and occasionally ontop the control panel itself. I guess this will be my solution if I can't find a decent cordless one. Is there a maximum recommended length to a keyboard cable ???
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This one seems promising. I don't care much for the handles but it still doesn't look as wide as a standard keyboard with keypad. Modest price aswell. Now to find a company who sells it and are shipping overseas.
2slk:
Carsten Carlos,
You say no more RF in your cab. I'm interested in hearing about your experience. I'm about to work a RF keyboard/mouse (Microsoft optical desktop) into my cab. It hasn't arrived yet and you have me a little a little scared that I'm about to head down the dreaded path of frustration.
MannyTC:
I'll buy a bunch of them if you guys really want 'em badly. I would prefer to do it in one order so let me know how many I should get. I am not looking to make a profit from the BYOAC'ers but I am sure you will all be fair to add a small amount handle the minor work for the company to set this up. My company is a reseller but we don't deal in such small stuff normally. Let me know.
Carsten Carlos:
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@2slk
I wouldn't expect any problems with a good RF keyboard/mouse-combination, as the Microsoft one surely is!
Myself got a cheap MBO-combi and I had only problems with it. Sometimes the mouse didn't move - you had to press reset on the sending unit (argh, we don't wanted to access the cab, want we?) AND on the mouse, so this wasn't what I liked a wireless control to do!
Batteries were brandnew and I tried several ones.
Additional the keyboard sometimes did hang up when it was connected on the keyboard-pass-thru of my I-PAC. I haven't verified it yet, but I guess this is also the keyboards fault.
When connecting the I-PAC with USB, I also had programming issues -don't know if this has anything to do with the MBO-keyboad, but I wouldn't wonder if so!
In addition, I tried another very cheap mouse - it even didn't react very smoothly 'cause the wood of the cab was to much for the little sending unit - this one was sitting directly in the PS2-port.
Again, I'm sure it would work with a good Microsoft/Logitech or whatever combination, but these $20 on Ebay gave me only junk.
There must be a reson why the real ones are so expensive!
Maybe you should ask around if the Microsoft ones also have reset switches, and more interesting, if you need them regular on their devices?