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[deusmetallum.livejournal.com]

This ticket made me giggle today:

I seem to type excessively or something, but I have managed to rub quite
a lot of the letters off my keyboard.

Is there any chance you have another downstairs that I can use as I am
missing the letter 'n' now and I appear to have two 'f' keys. Obviously
there is no immediate rush as I can type without them.

<3 users with a sense of humor.

Comments

[tortoises.livejournal.com]

I wish my mother was like this. She refuses to learn to touch-type and complains because we've used the keyboard so much we've rubbed most of the letters off.

Too bad I like the keyboard and won't change it :P

[gholam.livejournal.com]

There are places that engrave letters on keyboards. Mostly they do it to add another language to laptop/PDA/phone keyboards, but there's no reason they couldn't re-do English as well. Not sure how common they are in Australia though.

[fluffydragon.livejournal.com]

hehe.. The L, N, M, E and part of the S keys all have letters rubbed off on my work keyboard. You'd think it be C, X and V (and especially shift+Z) but oh well.

I kind of like it, actually.

Actually, now that I check again, the C is partly rubbed off, as are the D and R. The E is totally F'ing gone though, not even a speck remaining.

Kind of makes me want to attempt to rub off more letters on purpose just to mess with my co-worker who uses this desk at night ; )..

[major-error.livejournal.com]

pfeh. that's nothing a steady hand, a bit of white-out and some clear acrylic enamel can't fix.

[redqueenmeg.livejournal.com]

My N is a lambda now. I look forward to further deterioration. :)

[redhillian.livejournal.com]

"All wiyht. Rho sritched mg kegtops awound?"

[mouse-from-marz.livejournal.com]

I was thinking little white stickers and a fine-tipped sharpie.

[spooforbrains.livejournal.com]

I used to want to take all the letters of the keycaps of my old laptop, to turn it into a sort of Das Keyboard. The letters were slightly translucent too, so it would have looked really cool.

However I wasn't really sure how to achieve this aim without damaging it, and that machine is sadly out of regular use now.

[spooforbrains.livejournal.com]

We had a user at one of our offices that had this problem, and decided to reapply the letters herself, using Tippex. I mean, the woman used the thing every day of her life, she couldn't live without labelled keys?

[tortoises.livejournal.com]

Oh, I like the keyboard the way it is - if it were up to me I'd put in a Das Keyboard II, just to annoy my mum (I'm obnoxious like that, and my brother and I are both competent touch-typers). I think my mother has resorted to plugging in a USB keyboard when she wants to use the computer.

[fallconsmate.livejournal.com]

hmm...loss of paint on A, N, and the down arrow. *shrugs* it doesnt bother me, they're in the same places. ;)

[jcaswell.livejournal.com]

I've replaced it now, but the last keyboard in my laptop had lost everything from the W, A, S and D keys. Too much WoW, methinks :)

[pehteyemdjehuty.livejournal.com]

The keyboard on my old desktop was missing a good portion of most of its letters, LOL... I had been using it for something like 12 hours a day every day for 5 years though!

[major-error.livejournal.com]

That would work too. The clear enamel is important for fix longevity, though.

I'm screwed if the paint my keyboard ever starts wearing out. I have back-lit keys, and the lettering is defined by where the paint isn't.

[kirylyn.livejournal.com]

one of my friends HATED my old keyboard

it was an ergo that I had for YEARS before it finally stopped responding. thus, a LOT of the lettering had worn off because I've been touch keying since the 4th grade (well, touch typing THEN, long before computer keyboards commonplace)

he finally gave up, just had me key everything in since otherwise, it would have taken him three times as long to hunt/peck *rolls eyes*

sadly, trying to FIND an ergo keyb is getting harder and harder all the time. Guess it never really became acceptable :'(

[momentarygenius.livejournal.com]

i work in a call center, take calls and emails all day long. im missing e completely. and most of r a s d c n m. and the matte finish on the space bar is now shiny.


anytime i typo, i blame it on that e key, even if it has nothing to do with the e.

No one ever believes me when I say this

[tanetris.livejournal.com]

My keyboard up until earlier this year saw quite a lot of use. I first got it in '96 or so, used, along with a used 286 ($deity only knows how long it was in use before that) (it got moved over to a Pentium with a net connection in '98, and has seen various computers born and die since). I am not kind to my keyboards. Between MUDing, IM, IRC, forum-going, and just plain writing for hours each day, along with generally getting tossed around, I would describe the keyboard as heavily used. Not one key ever wore off even partially. Only reason I stopped using it was I was sick of the DIN (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIN_connector) to PS/2 adapter.

Of course, I expect half the keys of my new MS keyboard to be unreadable within a year or so, but that's fine by me.

[jon787.livejournal.com]

Maybe if everyone didn't use such inferior keyboards they wouldn't have this trouble. My keyboard is 20 years old and hasn't had any trouble with the labels on the keys. Every single label is still as clear as the day it left IBM's manufacturing plant.

[kostika.livejournal.com]

Ergo keyboards are easy to find (http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Ergonomic+Keyboard&x=0&y=0). I'd be more than lost without mine, both at home and at work.

I have the MS Natural 4000 something. The black one that most of the keys have now rubbed off of.

[mouse-from-marz.livejournal.com]

lmao yes that would be a problem. you could always cut out little stencils?