USB Keyboard decals ?

See if you can find one that's made in Blackpool.

I think Cherry make keyboards with engraved characters. Expensive, though.

logitech, cherry...apple

Anything that uses double shot moulded keys or maybe laser engraved.

I'm using a Microsoft Wireless 800 keyboard - I've got two of them* I use on diferent machines - and they show no signs of fading although they they are grey on black rather than white on black, but there is no differential wear: all keys are identical.

• They both work only with their own USB receiver, so there is no problem using them both at the same time - although, obviously, such times are rare - and the absence of the USB cable makes them a joy to use. The batteries seem to last for ever with no on/off switch to worry about and the only possible downside is that there are no indicator lights on the Caps Lock and Num Lock keys to tell you if you've caught one by accident.

I bought both of them paired with a Microsoft Wireless Mouse

Any of the led backlit keyboards. They have double injection moulded keytops that don?t have any decals to wear off.

The Logitech K800 is one of them.

Probably not much use to you, but they do come up secondhand.

I use IBM Model M keyboards (I have several).

The one I'm using is 24 years old, and has been in daily use for that time (by me).

Nothing fancy (no Windows key!) and needs a £5 USB converter or a suitable KVM. Very clicky and positive - not to everyone's taste.

NOTHING has worn.

Sounds like a crap keyboard. Never had that problem with Dell wired ones.

I used to love them, but confess to having got used to the modern, less clicky ones.

Dell. Actually although it might look a little odd I'm sure if you are a touch typist it does not matter if the keys were all blank. I'm very surprised they are merely markings as many keyboards seem to have them as different colour plastic included in the moulding itself. Most of the decals you can buy are either transfers or self adhesive and both either fall off or wear away. Brian

There has to be a joke here in the similarity of the word with knackered. Brian

You never heard the old song about knacker laquer?

Some of these are now translucent white keys with a black finish over them. The legend is apparently either mechanically or laser engraved through the black coating. This process is obviously much, much cheaper than double injection moulding.

I too have had a few Model M keyboards, but prefer something slightly less clicky these days.

Cherry Blue keyswitches are my favourites, YMMV. Cherry Keyboards come with keytops in both double-shot and non-doubleshot these days, I think; you have to look closelyto see what a particular model has. It is my impression that the Cheery black key tops tend not to be double-sh ot.

At home I have a Cherry G80-3000 with grey double-shot key caps (expensive, difficult to find these says). At work I bouch a Filco 'Ninja' keyboard:

These have the lettering on the *front* of the keys. The top surface is ent irely black ('ninja'). They use Cherry switches (you can specify the type) and are pretty nice (again, expensive).

One of these days I am going to come across and old Unicomp example at a ca r boot sale...

Jon N