RE: Keyboards

[Jack Shafer jacksh@xxxxxxxx]

Has anyone seen this FlexPro keyboard from Egghead in the flesh? I'm dubious
about the option "gull-wing" effect on the querty part of the board, but as
you'll see in the picture it has the F keys on the left. And it's cheap:
$38.

http://www.egghead.com/frontdoor/?MIval=products_detail&ID=297796



> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Eric Van Tassel [SMTP:101233.342@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent:	Friday, January 30, 1998 12:31 AM
> To:	INTERNET:xywrite@xxxxxxxx
> Subject:	Keyboards
>
> If Gateway is offering you the chance to buy an Anykey keyboard without
> buying a complete system, that places you in a position that apparently
> excludes me, and the rest of us who aren't already Gateway customers.*
>
>     *I should say "already Gateway customers Stateside". I've
> contacted
>     Gateway in the UK, and if you can trust their telephone
> salespeople
>     they don't package the Anykey with their PCs in Europe, or plan
> to
> do so.
>
> If you were prepared to buy two Anykey keyboards to pass on to me
> (assuming, as I do assume, that we could work out a way of conducting the
> transaction that would leave us both confident of the other's good faith),
> I would certainly pay $49 each for them. I don't have $49 to spare, but
> I'm
> becoming genuinely frightened at the prospect of having to permanently
> change my keyboarding habits when I lose the left-hand F keys.
>
> Is this something you'd be willing to discuss?
>
> Cheers
> Eric Van Tassel