Thank you for inviting English speakers to your board.
I would like to know if the keyboards without number pads (we call Tenkeyless) are popular in Asia?
Many members at Geekhack enjoy these boards:
IBM Model M Space Saver
Filco Tenkeyless FKNB87M/EB
Happy Hacking Keyboard Professional 2
Topre Realforce 87U
Thank you.
- Ripster
Korean and Japanes like a small keyboard. So quite many high-end keyboards are lanched in Korea and Japan.
Yes, it's a distance between far eas Asia and europe or US.
IBM was try to introdced tenkeyless type about over 10 years, ago. But they were failed to make it as standard.
Actually Tenkeyless keyboard is not much popular in Korea. But it is very popular between these members.
Also I have FILCO nonclick tenkeyless keyboard since it was released. Moreover I am using a TenkeyPad.
Somtimes it is very useful when I use the Internet Baking. However usually tenkey pas is useless.
Therefore many keyboard mania like a Tenkeyless, i think. And it is quite cute and easy to move.
I am sorry that my english is poor. Thanks for your reading.
It is interesting that members at Geekhack and KBDMania share the interest in new and different keyboards, including Tenkeyless.
We think it is cute too!
- Ripster
As guys wrote above, I think we love tenkeyless or space-saver much more than the full-sized in kbdmania but it doesn't mean that there's no full-size kbd users.
Yeah, it is very interesting to communicate and share stuffs between two sites!
The controller is developoed by AQUA who is a member of OTD.kr.
It is possible to asign any key using function key like HappyHacking keyboard.
You can get more information in KBDMANIA.^^