James's Weblog

I have four physical computers at work sharing two monitors, two keyboards, and three mice in various configurations. To make it slightly less complicated and to continue my obsession with Trackpoint keyboards, I bought a French-Canadian SpaceSaver keyboard from eBay. It’s completely unused, and it’s one-third the price of the equivalent US English keyboard (which currently isn’t available on eBay anyway). I don’t plan to use it that much, so the slightly unusual key configuration didn’t seem like a big deal, and I wanted something fairly compact to keep out of the way.

That said, I imagine that French-Canadians must be mutants. Whereas typical U.S. English keyboards have Enter keys that are about double the width of normal keys, the Enter key on this French-Canadian keyboard is tall instead of wide. Consequently, there’s an extra key between ' (apostrophe) and Enter, and my pinky finger can’t reach the Enter key without moving my hand off of the home row. Argh.