[tde-users] Re: Model M (was Re: The sound mess, etc.)

said Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via tde-users: | > Digging through issues one by one here. Am using the desktop more | > after having gotten a TKL (SSK in IBM parlance) Model M from Unicomp. | > I have a couple of genuine IBM SSKs, but they have become to valuable | > to use. The Unicomp reissue is if anything better, and I love it. But | > I digress. | | Oh ... I want one ... just for decoration that is :) It's here: https://www.pckeyboard.com/page/product/MINI_M The white keys are definitely better in person than the gray ones. Unicomp was Lexmark employees who bought up all the equipment when Lexmark stopped making Model M keyboards for IBM (and the equipment used by IBM before it spun off keyboards and printers as Lexmark). They kept making Model Ms, though after the existing stock was gone sold them as Unicomp. I have a batch of them from those days (and earlier, actually -- more Model Ms than anyone has a right to, including the 122-key battle cruisers in both IBM and Unicomp livery). Anyway, over the years the equipment got worn out and the quality suffered, so a few uears ago Unicomp created the New Model M (https://www.pckeyboard.com/page/product/NEW_M), which had the same guts but a less ridiculous case, all new tooling, and as a result a brand new Model M, unavailable since IBM made 'em pre-1991.