Keyboard won't work on my laptop

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Leese wrote:

Hey Ed, I am sick of having a sore wrist, bad neck from bad position of laptop…need to get an external keyboard, mousepad set up on laptop so as to stop hurting myself. I have just plugged in a mouse (USB connection and it works …just that easy!) and I have two old keyboards here to choose from but the connection aint USB. They are round with 6 pins and a larger protrusion….do they make adapters that turn it into a USB connection? I tried to find info on line, but had a hard time finding anything directly about my laptop and don’t know that I need a docking station….perhaps just a connector/adapter…thoughts? L

Dear Leese,

Well, they probably make an adapter that costs $150 bucks that will let you use the old keyboards or you could get a USB keyboard for $30 or less. Here's a Microsoft Curve Keyboard for under $20 that uses USB connection...
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Microsoft+-+Comfort+Curve+Keyboard+2000/8934718.p?id=1217030529445&skuId=8934718

If you're running low on USB connections on your laptop...you could also get a USB hub. Here are a few ideas...
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?_dyncharset=ISO-8859-1&_dynSessConf=-1926553408108093139&id=pcat17071&type=page&st=USB+Hub&sc=Global&cp=1&nrp=15&sp=&qp=&list=n&iht=y&usc=All+Categories&ks=960