First, I don't know. You might be right.

But my prejudice is that adjustability and foldability are best viewed
as NRE issues --- more a cost of design than a cost of manufacture.
Also there is maybe a cultural side to this matter of complexity. EEs
and CEs, I suspect, are intimidated by things an ME would consider no
big deal and vice versa. I think what we're talking about is a few
artfully placed springs, latches and screws --- closer to a switch
blade knife than to a copying machine.

I try to see cost of adjustability as being payed, in a sense, by the
93 qwerty keys that are eliminated. Not to mention the mouse :-)



--- In chordite@yahoogroups.com, Russell Nelson <nelson@c...> wrote:

... I wonder if, instead, it's [desirable] to make a range of keyboard
sizes ...