Marketplace Business will sell for $695 through selected computer retailers.
Some computer retailers have left the market, but not for lack of demand.
Microsoft said the keyboard would be broadly available through computer retailers in early October.
These problems may translate into consolidation among computer retailers this year, analysts said.
Judging by the reports of computer retailers this season, Amelia was not alone.
The computer retailer depends on Compaq for 15 percent of its revenue.
Within several years, though, low-cost computer retailers appeared and began selling script software.
The stock of the personal computer retailer lost more than half its value, plunging $4, to $2.875.
It summoned executives of computer retailers to its headquarters earlier this year to stress that point.
It also sells its products at other computer retailers and on the Internet.