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The first keyboard he referred to was the original IBM "clicky" keyboard (aka Buckling Spring keyboard) which is still available new. The right to manufacture

The first keyboard he referred to was the original IBM "clicky" keyboard (aka Buckling Spring keyboard) which is still available new. The right to manufacture it has been sold to a company called Unicomp. [1] They've ditched the legacy connector and now it will work with USB. I personally own one of these and I love it. It causes less carpel tunnel problems for me because the keys travel more and they don't bottom out quite abruptly. The only downside is that it is very noisy. If you can type at 80 wpm like me and you work in an open cube environment, you'll make your cube neighbors crazy. I no longer work in a shared office so nobody cares and I enjoy the clicky sound. [1] https://www.pckeyboard.com/ https://www.pckeyboard.com/

ytjohn 6y ago
I have two of the Unicomp EnduraPro and it's been my favorite keyboard for years. I'm one of probably 8 people in the world that like the Thinkpad's Trackpoint, and this keyboard gives you that. During normal operations, I don't have to move my hands off the keyboard. The company is also rather responsive. I once dumped a large cup of soda right onto the keyboard. It was out of warranty but they repaired it for a rather reasonable amount. More recently, I picked up the Ultimate Hacking Keyboard[1]. It was a bit of a gamble because it's a smaller keyboard making use of layers (mod, mouse, and function). However I adapted to it in pretty short order. On a full keyboard, you do end up moving your hands to the arrow keys or the function keys. On this keyboard, you almost never move your hands. It's got a nice tacticle feel and it's quieter than the model M. With the mouse layer, I can keep my hands on the home row almost as much as with the EnduraPro. There is a bit of awkwardness with the default keymap in vim. The Mod layer's arrow keys almost, but not quite, match up with vim's cursor movement keys, so I sometimes confuse my muscle memory (and vim) when bouncing in and out of insert mode. I should probably remap the arrow keys, but that's really my only complaint about it so far. [1]: https://ultimatehackingkeyboard.com/ https://ultimatehackingkeyboard.com/ I do have UHK's trackpoint and key cluster addons on preorder, just waiting on them to ship.
timw4mail 6y ago
Technically, the Model F introduced the switch type. The Model M did, however, introduce the standard 101 key layout.

ytjohn 6y ago

I have two of the Unicomp EnduraPro and it's been my favorite keyboard for years. I'm one of probably 8 people in the world that like the Thinkpad's Trackpoint, and this keyboard gives you that. During normal operations, I don't have to move my hands off the keyboard. The company is also rather responsive. I once dumped a large cup of soda right onto the keyboard. It was out of warranty but they repaired it for a rather reasonable amount. More recently, I picked up the Ultimate Hacking Keyboard[1]. It was a bit of a gamble because it's a smaller keyboard making use of layers (mod, mouse, and function). However I adapted to it in pretty short order. On a full keyboard, you do end up moving your hands to the arrow keys or the function keys. On this keyboard, you almost never move your hands. It's got a nice tacticle feel and it's quieter than the model M. With the mouse layer, I can keep my hands on the home row almost as much as with the EnduraPro. There is a bit of awkwardness with the default keymap in vim. The Mod layer's arrow keys almost, but not quite, match up with vim's cursor movement keys, so I sometimes confuse my muscle memory (and vim) when bouncing in and out of insert mode. I should probably remap the arrow keys, but that's really my only complaint about it so far. [1]: https://ultimatehackingkeyboard.com/ https://ultimatehackingkeyboard.com/ I do have UHK's trackpoint and key cluster addons on preorder, just waiting on them to ship.

timw4mail 6y ago

Technically, the Model F introduced the switch type. The Model M did, however, introduce the standard 101 key layout.