Need Keyboard Info

[cabinetman]

Is it possible to use the keyboard (laptop or desktop) as a calculator somehow?
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[poolhound]

Not sure if you mean you want to use an old keyboard to build a calculator or just looking for an ap on your PC.


If the latter, just look in the accessories program area and you will find a basic calculator program that works with the main or ten key pad.

[os1kne]

Here's a link to a freeware program that is even better.

http://www.moffsoft.com/

Good luck!

[cabinetman]

Not sure if you mean you want to use an old keyboard to build a calculator or just looking for an ap on your PC.


If the latter, just look in the accessories program area and you will find a basic calculator program that works with the main or ten key pad.

I was looking for an online calculator. Thanks for the heads up. I never noticed it before.
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[cabinetman]

Here's a link to a freeware program that is even better.

http://www.moffsoft.com/

Good luck!

Thanks for the link. I downloaded it.
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[Uncle Cracker]

My keyboard (MS wireless) has a calculator button at top right. Press it, and a pop-up window appears which runs of the numeric keypad.

[billwmeyer]

I once owned an offbrand keyboard that had a calculator function built in. You just pushed a button and the 10 key pad became a calculator and there was a spot for a readout above the keys. When not used as a calculator the readout was a clock. I wonder what happened to that keyboard?

Bill

[os1kne]

I once owned an offbrand keyboard that had a calculator function built in. You just pushed a button and the 10 key pad became a calculator and there was a spot for a readout above the keys. When not used as a calculator the readout was a clock. I wonder what happened to that keyboard?

Bill

I thought that I had seen a kb like that ~ 8 years ago, when I did a lot more work with computer hardware. I never used one, so I wasn't sure if it actually did calculator functions. I have a coworker that had a keypad that would perform calculator functions, or be a keypad for his laptop - depending on which way it was switched, it didn't do either function very well.

[billwmeyer]

I would guess that 8 to 10 years ago was about right. I really don't know what happened to mine. It was pretty handy. I probably changed computers and let it go with the old one.

Bill

[tfischer]

Not everyone knows that you can type math expressions right into google. Try the following Googles:

2+2
2+3(5*5)
pi * 5^2
1.2 feet in inches
1.2 feet in millimeters
360 gallons in cubic meters

Cool, huh?