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Shout-out to Unicomp[0], who make new USB Model M's from the original specs. I love mine and my wife hates it because it's too loud and clakkety. Their websit
by na85 10y ago
Shout-out to Unicomp[0], who make new USB Model M's from the original specs. I love mine and my wife hates it because it's too loud and clakkety. Their website is horrid and the fit-and-finish on the product leaves a bit to be desired, but the switches are great.
[0] http://www.pckeyboard.com/ http://www.pckeyboard.com/
- hydandata 10y agoYep they make pretty decent clones. I have special edition they did on Massdrop but sadly the 70g keys are causing major pain and I have to use my other keyboard with Topre switches for doing work :(
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoThey actually aren't clones. IIRC, they took the original diagrams, plates, etc., from IBM, who wasn't using them.
- creshal 10y agoIBM outsourced keyboard production first to Lexmark, and then to Unicomp. Unicomp then later went and bought the patents and everything to spin-off their own products, still with the original tooling. You'll find a lot of "Original IBM" keyboards that were built by Unicomp in license. I have a Model M4 from 2000 that was already built by Unicomp, sold by IBM with their own branding.
- kw71 10y agoTHE PAIN! I'm such a fool. It was so terrible the first time. I wanted to cut off my hands. It went away and I got back to work. Eventually I had to stop work every hour from the pain. It can't be the keyboard! My precious PS/2 buckling spring model M! I've been using it for fifteen years without trouble! THIS IS THE BEST KEYBOARD IN THE WORLD! I am such a fool. No more model M, no more pain.
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoI have no idea what the pain is, as you haven't specified, but I'm glad you don't have it.
- tracker1 10y agoThat's funny, my own carpel tunnel symptoms improved a lot about 6 years ago when I switched to a unicomp keyboard.
- GunboatDiplomat 10y agoThey actually use the original IBM tooling, I think. They bought it in the 90's. Around the same time they designed their website.
- amiga-workbench 10y agoThey just recently re-designed their website, its rather swollen now.
- duncan_bayne 10y agoNot only are their keyboards great, their support is superlative too. I'd have bought more, only the unit I bought six years ago is still going strong :)
- tracker1 10y agoI replaced mine when I discovered the 103-key layout keyboards... gave the old one(s) to friends. Also, auto-hot-key script so that Win+[,],\ is volume-down,up,mute respectively.
- duncan_bayne 10y agoI do a similar thing for media control, but I'm running StumpWM so bindings are even easier to set up.
- moron4hire 10y agoI have trouble with warm restarts losing the USB controller on which that keyboard is connected. No other keyboard causes this problem, and it is definitely the entire controller. Scary to imagine what they could be doing in that driver.
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoI've never had that happen...
- sevensor 10y agoI use a unicomp keyboard, and I have the same problem. I think the problem is that it draws quite a lot more current than other USB peripherals. I have mine plugged into a powered USB hub, which seems to help.
- tracker1 10y agoIt definitely pushes the envelope on power, if it's connected to a port that doesn't deliver, it won't work right... much more than typical membrane keyboards. They also have issues with some KVM switches that don't provide enough power. Wound up using a split power cable (like one that's usually for extra power to USB external drives, so I could push extra power into the USB interface. Love the keyboards though... despite some QC issues.
- peatmoss 10y agoI bought the PS/2 version. Don't have this problem.