Winn L. Rosch Hardware Bible, Sixth Edition

Wireless

As computers merge into entertainment systems, you're apt to sit farther and farther away from the display screen. A home entertainment computer, for example, fits into your living room more like a television set, at one end of the room with you at the other. Just as a wireless remote control has become de rigueur for your television, a wireless keyboard gives you the same flexibility when the computer takes over.

Wireless keyboards are two-piece systems. Each involves the keyboard itself, which functions as a transmitter, and a base station, which acts as the receiver. (Keyboard communications are actually a two-way street, but the transmitter/receiver distinction is valid as a view of the data you generate by typing.) A single base ...