Aaaargh! Spending a fortune on keyboards!!

Lesley998

espresso wrote: »

Perhaps it's not your son but you! Have you got long nails?

I don't use it. I'm on the laptop. With very short fingernails.

I still don't get people that type with their fingernails...??

Lesley998

albertross wrote: »

which letters?

Oh, just the letters

I D O T H I S D E L I B E R A T E L Y T O P I S S M Y M O T H E R O F F

Nah. The most used ones, of course.

hechizero

Here is a full stainless steel keyboard - "Vandal Proof". Your son may find this a challenge as the letters are imprinted in metal. However in this case I think anything is possible!

http://www.shicontrols.com/k-shi-keyboards.htm

albertross_2

which are?

Lesley998

albertross wrote: »

which are?

Most used letters in the English language I suppose ...vowels and some constonants. (sp?)

Q P X Z J K are still there.

Why, may I ask is this important?

Lesley998

hechizero wrote: »

Here is a full stainless steel keyboard - "Vandal Proof". Your son may find this a challenge as the letters are imprinted in metal. However in this case I think anything is possible!

http://www.shicontrols.com/k-shi-keyboards.htm

many thanks for the link.

albertross_2

because it may indicate if it is games related.

Avoriaz

Lesley998 wrote: »

.. he is a normal 17 year old ..

Is that your entry for Oxymoron of the month?

Teach him and DH to touch type.

morganb

Some possible options :

http://www.speedskin.com/reading.html
American site doing keyboard covers (some with the letters missing already!)

http://www.keyboardco.com/
Surely one on here should be robust enough - they have a massive range

http://www.iwantoneofthose.com/projector-keyboard/index.html
It's expensive but you'll never rub the characters off

HTH

Lesley998

albertross wrote: »

because it may indicate if it is games related.

No, it's not games related, he doesn't play many games on the PC except Fifa occasionally. But he does sit on MSN and MySpace constantly (when he is not revising for his Highers of course :rolleyes: ) and I can hear him two rooms away, hitting the keyboard like a tap dancing elephant, typing out his messages.

Maybe I should get him into some anger management.