Living without l<, can it be done?

did you pre read your post? WTF did u say?

he has no K

Get a new keyboard, they don't cost much ;)

looks like you cant be a white supremecist

I have an old IBM 570 Thin()pad fourth hand, at least. It's voicebox is gone and it often ta()es 4 tries to get it booted up but I love it all the same. Yesterday my "()"()ey died.

Yep they are all there except l<.

It's the 23 most used letter in every day written communication and only xq and z are used less.

My question to you all is simple-Can I live without "l<'?

Should I continue to l< or just ignore its absence?

I preread it but using the l and the < to invent a letter does not filter thru this board well.

A new eyboard for a noteboo-really?

Yes it can as long as society caters to your k-less needs.

so now in your world the best distance running nation is a popular Irish singer

You can still copy and paste the K's can't ya. K?

Do what I do for our track club computers we use for finish lines. Go to eBay or Tigerdirect and buy the exact same model. An old Thinkpad won't be much. Take the hard drive out of your machine, maybe the memory if you expanded it and plug it into your "new" machine. Easy to do yourself, and likely less hassle than trying to get just a keyboard.

From the looks of it, you can get one for about $150.

Copy and Paste wrote:

You can still copy and paste the K's can't ya. K?

this is one option. another option, at least while using microsoft word (and you could then copy and paste the text into other programs if needed), is to assign a shortcut key to k and to K. go to the symbols menu (Insert ... Symbols) and you'll have the ability to assign such a shortcut. for example, you could make alt+l = k and alt+j = K. (i didn't try these particular examples, it's possible that one or both of alt-l and alt-j are pre-assigned.)

i made it through my last year of law school this way.

if it's used as a home computer (as opposed to mobile), then you can just buy an external keyboard for around $5 or $10 and use that instead.

wineturtle wrote:

I have an old IBM 570 Thin()pad fourth hand, at least. It's voicebox is gone and it often ta()es 4 tries to get it booted up but I love it all the same. Yesterday my "()"()ey died.

Yep they are all there except l<.

It's the 23 most used letter in every day written communication and only xq and z are used less.

My question to you all is simple-Can I live without "l<'?

Should I continue to l< or just ignore its absence?

I preread it but using the l and the < to invent a letter does not filter thru this board well.

A new eyboard for a noteboo-really?

Do you have any familiarity with linux? I've never needed to do this myself, but apparently you can easily (software) re-map your keyboard. You could just pick a key that you never use and map 'k' to that. It would be a system-wide setting.

awerr wrote:

he has no K

Get a new keyboard, they don't cost much ;)

Hey man, Ceyboard is spelled with a C.