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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 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 ...




I 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


Thanks, appreciated. Not completely extinct, then - but it seems to live in a quite small niche ;-)




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