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I'm a bit of a sucker for UNIX layout keyboards. It's made it to the front page of Hacker News before, but I have a post about how I fell in love with the HHKB
by donatj 3y ago
I'm a bit of a sucker for UNIX layout keyboards.
It's made it to the front page of Hacker News before, but I have a post about how I fell in love with the HHKB Lite back in the day (HHKB + arrow keys) [1]
After this I used a Sun layout Model-M Unicomp keyboard with classic IBM style buckling springs for a while. [2]
I used the aforementioned WhiteFox True Fox in the office, it's still there but we've been working from home since COVID started - I'll probably go collect it one day.
In the last couple years my hands started getting arthritic, and after trying a handful of ergonomic keyboards I finally settled on a Sun Type 7 [3]. The super soft rubber dome keys are the best I have used for my arthritis. They're soft, but not mushy. Really pleasant to type on. Not only that, but it looks cool but it's got the UNIX layout that I love.
I even managed to remap most of the extra left column in macOS to F13+ keys that the OS can recognize and I can use for keyboard shortcuts. I actually bought the thing from Oracle back in the day brand new. The RFQ/order process was a bit of a nightmare, they were set up to sell to major corporations, not to some dude who collects keyboards.
1. https://donatstudios.com/UNIX-Keyboards https://donatstudios.com/UNIX-Keyboards / https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21912184 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21912184
2. https://www.pckeyboard.com/page/product/40PSA https://www.pckeyboard.com/page/product/40PSA
3. https://i.imgur.com/PftSNnk.jpg https://i.imgur.com/PftSNnk.jpg