http://www.ebay.co.u...#ht_1723wt_1397

Yeah, it's only a Lexmark, 1995 fixed cable one, but I always had a hankering for a brand new, boxed one and a Unicomp just doesn't quite cut it somehow. My other one still smells of coke ovens from the Coal Board office I liberated it from in the 90s. It still pains me greatly that we chucked a whole massive cupboard full of Ms away.

I can't wait for this to arrive

I also bought one of these yesterday:

for the office as I love ThinkPad keyboards too and an M is too loud for a modern open plan office.

i had one of those a few years ago i liberated from a spares cupboard at a company i worked at.

Wonderful proper clicky keyboard.

Can't beat 'em

Bugger!

I threw a old new in box one of those away last year when we were clearing out. :o

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

I chucked out the G/F's German version three years back when we had a clearout of old 'puter bits and bobs. :( oops

German keyboards.*shudder*. Actually, they're nothing compared to Swiss German keyboards. Pure unadulterated evil those things.

Jesus.. we throw loads of those away every week at work! :S

German keyboards.*shudder*. Actually, they're nothing compared to Swiss German keyboards. Pure unadulterated evil those things.

actually, Nick, I found it just as easy to use as a standard UK keyboard, once I'd fathomed out where the @ symbol was and stopped putting umlauts in words!

Jesus.. we throw loads of those away every week at work! :S

Talk to me.

actually, Nick, I found it just as easy to use as a standard UK keyboard, once I'd fathomed out where the @ symbol was and stopped putting umlauts in words!

Problem is, I had to use them in a UNIX environment, where you've got to contend with the / being shift-7 and other shenanigans every few key strokes.

Talk to me.

If i come across any i will let you know.

I'm returning the Thinkpad keyboard. It's very poor compared to the keyboard in my T500. It flexes like crazy, it's too hollow and lightweight and it's loud (cheap loud, not Model M loud) when you type on it. It looks great though and it's nice to have the trackpoint. Shame.

I'd like to try one of these:

IBM have always made good keyboards etc.

I remember when i was about 5, when my father excitedly showed me his first Portable computer he'd just got at work

it was one of these beasts, it was like something from the future

My dad had one of those at work too! And yes, it was like something from the future. I'd actually forgotten all about those.

Luggables! Should have come with their own wheels!

For a while I've preferred decent laptop keyboards as I like the short travel making it easy to quickly move across the keyboard while typing although I struggled to find a decent desktop keyboard which was similar. I now use a Microsoft Arc keyboard and find it superb to type on although they've made some very strange choices with the layout which are a bit irritating:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Microsoft-Arc-Wireless-Keyboard-Xbox/dp/B0036TGQFA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1346541471&sr=8-1

Model M keyboards are banned in our office as the noise from them drove people up the wall.

John

I've got a year old Unicomp that I am trying to sell. I love the clicky keyboard but it's rather big.

It's a 105 key Customizer that I imported direct from Unicomp.

(I wouldn't want £120 for it either!)

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How much are you thinking?

£75 with postage? Would cover the cost of its replacement and I'd be happy with that.

All for switches.

For a long time I wondered; still do, about why my typing is so bad. Given I spend several hours a day doing it.

I decided to treat myself (last birthday) to a filco 105 cherry blue. Amazing, I love it. Clare knows when I'm asleep at my desk, she can't here the clacking in the garden.

Have a 88UK for travelling/office, also as it's browns so not quite as annoying. I'm sure you need to call me too

Always liked the thinkpad keyboards, always liked thinkpads too... next time around.

I decided to replace the Unicomp with a Cherry MX Black based keyboard, but it is nothing like the clickety click of a Buckling Spring.

Am tempted to get a Cherry MX Blue version of something - I've read that they are just as good as the buckling spring to use and are a bit quieter.

Must investigate.

Quieter, maybe...

Clare can hear me; I'm in the loft, she's 60' down the garden.

I think it's the pitch/resonance

Defiantly a little more click, press on the blue over this brown. But the feedback is almost as good, actually no it's not. But way better than anything apple / usb junk.

Interesting. I'll have to come round and try your keyboards Colin. I'm in Guernsey this week though installing UCS and swapping out Brocades for MDS and other DC based fun. Still, at least the sea food is good.

Had to return the M. It was rubbish. Dirty, nothing like brand new and had a broken leg at the back. It just happened to be in an original M box (different serial number) so I guess the seller thought they could try and dupe someone.

I need to try the Filcos for sure. My brother in law has just got a Topre Realforce. Nice, but near as damn it £200!

Great keyboards. Back in the day when the company I worked for did multi-user Sco Unix based WordPerfect systems, I went to one site where a secretary used the console, she had used it that much that it had a 2 mm groove worn in the space bar.

Built them well in those days, but the IBM list price was (from memory) £103 for them at the time.

The company also went through a phase of selling cheap PC clones with cheap keyboards with stuck on legends, the number I visited where secretaries had worn them blank.

Until I convinced my boss to make sure they specified Cherry Double Shot Moulded ones.

Paul