Keyboards must be masochists. They lie there, supine, on your desk and let you bash them up. Callous people pour coffee and tea over them, smokers (do they still exist?) use them as ashtrays. And when the computer plays up, it's the keyboard, not the offending box, that takes the thrashing.
In short, though the keyboard is the principal means by which we communicate with our personal computer, we take it for granted and generally abuse it. This it mostly takes without complaint, although in extreme cases I have known keytops to fly off and letters to stick down.
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