Say what you will about suitcase computers, but at least most of them still have their keyboards with them. [danjovic] has this vintage Brazilian computer from the 1980s called a Gradiente Expert.

Nearly every barcode scanner I've run across is effectively a keyboard. I'd give it a try with one of the commonly available ones; worst case you can always return it.

My laptop is USB-only. I have a Microsoft Natural keyboard and a Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer that I use daily, and I had an adapter that allows me to plug these two PS/2 devices in and then plug ...

Editor's take: One of the first upgrades I bought for my very first computer around the turn of the century was a Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer. Its standout feature was IntelliEye, an optical ...