what is keyboard?

i dont know

2007-12-03 19:18:48 · answer #1 · answered by Oh My God! 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋

Computer keyboards
Main article: Keyboard (computing)

A computer keyboardAfter punch cards and paper tape, interaction via teletype-style keyboards became the main input device for computers. During the 1980s and 1990s almost all computers came equipped with them as the main form of interaction, and most users are familiar with using them.

There are different types of keyboard technologies.

The most popular layout of keys on the modern-day English keyboard is called the QWERTY design, based on the most popular typewriter keyboard layout. This has been further extended to the standard 104-key PC keyboard layout, with the addition of cursor keys, a calculator-style numeric keypad, two groups of special function keys, a key for the Windows menu (on IBM and clones), and other modifier keys. Some computer manufacturers have added keys specifically related to the Internet and e-mail, but these have not become standard.

The fastest typists (as of 2007) use a stenograph, a kind of chorded keyboard used by most court reporters and closed caption reporters.

Despite the development of alternative input devices such as the mouse, touch sensitive screens, pen devices, character recognition, voice recognition, and improvements in computer speed and memory size, the keyboard remains the most commonly used and most versatile device used for direct human input into computers.

mechanical keyboards:
typewriter

electric keyboards:
Stenotype
Key punch

and that all i konw about keyboard.

2007-12-03 15:43:51 · answer #2 · answered by jasmine_9874123 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋

here:

–noun
1. the row or set of keys on a piano, organ, or the like.
2. a set of keys, usually arranged in tiers, for operating a typewriter, typesetting machine, computer terminal, or the like.
3. any of various musical instruments played by means of a pianolike keyboard, as a piano, electric piano, or organ.
–verb (used with object), verb (used without object)
4. Also, key, key in. Computers. to enter (information) into a computer by means of a keyboard.
5. to set (text) in type, using a machine that is operated by a keyboard.
[Origin: 1810–20; key1 + board]

2007-12-03 15:42:40 · answer #3 · answered by Eric McLaughlin 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋

Keyboard is a board full of keys..

for example.

Computer Keyboard ....
Music Keyboard...

2007-12-03 15:41:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋

what you just used to ask what is a keyboard? men what in the world

2007-12-03 16:05:08 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋

I love these kinds of questions. They make me laugh, as do the answers some of you come up with.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/keyboard

2007-12-03 15:40:35 · answer #6 · answered by Peanut Butter 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋

The set of typewriter-like keys that enables you to enter data into a computer.

2007-12-03 15:40:40 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋

The set of keys or row on a piano, organ,

2007-12-03 18:04:23 · answer #8 · answered by Baps . 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋

keyboard is the object you used to type this question

2007-12-03 15:38:43 · answer #9 · answered by Wesley W 5 · 5⤊ 2⤋

r u serious...didn't u just type a question..now think about it...what did you type it on..oh yeah that's right a keyboard....

2007-12-03 15:40:01 · answer #10 · answered by shannon c 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋

I think you used it to type "what is keyboard?" Which made absolutely no sense at all.

2007-12-03 15:38:28 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 4⤋

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