7 May
2012
7 May
'12
5:24 p.m.
On 7 May 2012 at 15:56, Eric Smith wrote:
As I said, cost. It's not that they don't do
it because it is
difficult; they don't do it because more difficulty means higher cost.
If customers weren't willing to buy it without n-key rollover, they'd
manage to include the diodes, by surface-mounting them on the back
side of the PCB. However, the vast majority of customers are willing
to buy the cheapest crap they can get.
And some of the stuff today is *really* crap. I've got a fairly
recent compact HP keyboard here that occasionally exhibits key
bounce. (I've checked that I'm taking my meds, so it isn't me). It
was new out of the box.
--Chuck