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Does any company still sell keyboards that dont have the windows keys?
I hate those extra keys. I never use them, and because the ctrl and
alt keys are smaller I keep hitting those useless things. I had
several old keyboards and have used them until now. This is my last
one and it's dying with a dead down-arrow key. I'd much prefer to get
a NEW keyboard since the old ones are usually pretty well worn.

Two indicators may help locate what you want:
1. AT layout was in the 1980s the name of the
classic keyboard, with the F-keys in two columns
at the left side, balancing the keypad on the right.
2. ALPS was the name of the best-known maker
of key mechanisms, found in Northgate and other
premium makes of KB.
(My two Northgate Omnikey 102 KBs have been
in service for 20 years and show no signs of wearing out.)

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)