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Yep 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 keyboar
by hydandata 10y ago
Yep 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.