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Why Do Computers Have Two Number Keys?

post #1 of 5
10/23/09 at 10:16pm
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A keypad plus numbers on the top row. I always wondered why? This laptop has and is the first laptop I have that has the number keys. I find my self using the keypad since I find it easier to use and now that I have a laptop that has it.
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post #2 of 5
10/23/09 at 10:23pm
Some people hate the keypads. Some people are used to the number keys. I use them both.
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post #3 of 5
10/24/09 at 10:00am
Modular design, allowing the manufacturers to add the keypad as needed for different models.

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post #4 of 5
10/25/09 at 12:57am
Numbers on the top keys? Look at a typewriter. About what one hundred years?
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post #5 of 5
10/27/09 at 4:36pm
The reason you still have the top row of number keys on computer keyboards is that it is a throwback to days of yore when any typing was done on a mechanical typewriter. The numpad was added to computer keyboards as accountants started hucking their old adding machines in favor of a more multi-functional computer system.

My mother has worked in book keeping and accounting most of her adult life, the top row of keys SUCKS for entering in long strings of numbers into spreadsheets. With very little practice you can pick up 10 key really quick and pound the figures out like a madman. I learned 10 key all on my lonesome in the 7th grade (when I first started playing with computers)
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