[mdlug] OT Keyboard price (WAS: Remapping Backspace key)

[Mike]

M. D. Krauss wrote:
> Aaron Kulkis wrote:
>> Matthew Krauss wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> In my never-ending quest to perfect my keyboard layout, I've tripped on
>>> the backspace and fallen down in to the cracks where all the crumbs and
>>> dust are.  I want to swap backspace and backslash, but it won't work.
>>>
>>> The backslash/pipe key takes on the aspect and attribute of the
>>> backspace just fine (and I love it!)
>>>
>>> The backspace key is more picky.  It just refuses to generate a pipe.
>>> Hitting backspace generates a backslash, and hitting shift-backspace
>>> generates a... drum roll... backslash.
>>>
>>> Googling turns up some  other mention of this problem:
>>>
>>> http://www.redhat.com/archives/xfree86-list/2003-September/msg00028.html
>>> http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2004/03/msg00053.html
>>>
>>> At the first link, the question is asked, but not answered.
>>>
>>> At the second link, someone gives a rough explanation of why this
>>> happens and it is not considered a bug, and a link to a French-language
>>> workaround for a similar situation.  I tried to adapt the workaround (I
>>> don't speak French, but Bash was our common language); but it didn't
>>> work.
>>>
>>> I'll post the details of that attempt if anyone thinks it would be
>>> helpful, BUT I am really hoping someone has a better approach.  Ideas
>>> anyone?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> http://pfuca-store.stores.yahoo.net/haphackeylit1.html
>> http://pfuca-store.stores.yahoo.net/haphackeyser.html
>>
> Thank you Aaron, I know about that... and I lust after it... but I'm
> poor, so I make do with my little xmodmaps... For now...
>

I still haven't figured this out, why does a keyboard with blacked-out, or
no letters on the keyboard sell for $200+.  I understand that Das Keyboard
one had "balanced" keys or whatever the big spec for it was.  I don't see
any special features of this Happy Hacker keyboard other than it has
blacked out keys.

I'd be happy to donate a keyboard with no numbers/letters on the keys,
that has just been used a lot to one of these companies to show them that
there is no reason to jack up the cost because there is no writing on the
keys.