When you look at the computer system, you will identify the keyboard, it that flat board that has keys arranged on it. ‘A 3 years old user of the computer, can say it is the mouth of the computer’; the mouth is used for eating, ’maybe because little children likes food a lot’. The keyboard is used for sending information into the computer. Before information can be seen on the monitor it must be sent through the Keyboard. The keyboard is not just an idle part’
All the keys found on the keyboard are arranged on a fixed location on that keyboard; even when they are compared to other keyboards, the keys are in the same places as other keys except few keys that may be in different places.
The keyboard has different group of keys arranged on it, these group of keys on the keyboard. The arrangement of the keys forms the features of the computer keyboard. They include the following:
Number keys Alphabet keys Special keys
Function keys Cursor key Screen Editing key
The keyboard found on the LAPTOPis the same as the keyboard found on a computer that is not a LAPTOP (desktop computers).
There are keypads designed on other devices which are not regular computer keyboard. As we also have it on the mobile devices.