I'll have to post a picture of this in Chit-Chat, but I have rigged a platform and keyboard tray onto my treadmill so that I can walk and work at the same time. In fact, as I type this I am climbing a modest 4% grade at 3mph. Works well, and should allow me to eat like a hog while not getting too fat from my sedentary coding lifestyle.

The problem I am having is with the keyboard. The current computer in use is a laptop, which sits on a shelf to which I have attached a keyboard tray. I bought a cheap Logitech Classic 200 Keyboard, because it has no unnecessary frills, and is a size that fits well on the tray I have. Size turned out to be not such an issue, but I saw no reason to pay a bundle for this setup. At first, it worked fairly well, except occasionally a key would just repeat forever. Generally, I was able to stop it by hitting another key, but if the key was the backspace, it just wouldn't stop until I unplugged the keyboard (USB). It was a bit annoying to watch a page of code get gobbled up by a runaway process. Then just in the last hour, the keyboard started working very intermittently, then not at all. Pulling the plug and plugging it back in would get it working again for a few characters, then it would quit again.

Normally, for an item this cheap, I would just replace it, but keyboards are simple things, so I am suspecting that the problem may not actually lie with the keyboard, but rather with the laptop. Therefore, before I rush back out and lay down another $20 for one of these keyboards, I thought I might go fishing on here for some opinions. Has anyone heard of symptoms like this, and is the problem likely to be in the keyboard or the laptop?