Customers killed the Cherry MX-5000, too.And it's kind of ironic that the rubber dome clone (Siemens KBPC-E (?) aka Kinesis Maxim) still lives.
And it's kind of ironic that the rubber dome clone (Siemens KBPC-E (?) aka Kinesis Maxim) still lives.
The Ergonomic keyboard market needs more Razer babes.Show Image(http://www.shareware-beach.com/photos/J1302764.jpg)
I patented this idea in 1990 and over the next couple of years made mock-ups and prototypes . . .
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Mark Goldstein
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I patented this idea in 1990...
Now THAT is a great first post!! Welcome to geekhack!
It would be great to capture some of this history in our wiki. Glad to see you here Mark and I hope you stick around. ;)
In the closing of Lexmark’s keyboard division the tooling for the Select-Ease/Options keyboard went to Maxi, however, Unicomp had the buckling spring technology, The tooling needed extensive modification to make it work with rubber domes and Maxi didn’t have the gumption. And I had the patents which were non-exclusive to start then became exclusive to Goldstein/Goldtouch when the companies were formed.
There were attempts to get the tooling from Maxi and have it made by Unicomp under license from me but Maxi was too difficult to deal with and last I time I spoke with their lawyer, the tooling could not be located.
Cherry also shared my information with Siemens and they went on to produce that ergo keyboard which was also re-badged the Kinesis Maxim (ironic indeed).
There were attempts to get the tooling from Maxi and have it made by Unicomp under license from me but Maxi was too difficult to deal with and last I time I spoke with their lawyer, the tooling could not be located.
Lowpoly. At that time Siemens/Nixdorf did their own keyboards. However, I visited them in the late 1990s with Mitsumi and they were setting up production in Eastern European countries. Mitsumi made the Goldtouch and wanted to replace their ergo keyboard with ours. Quite a convoluted endeavour.