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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: tp4tissue on Fri, 15 February 2013, 15:39:15
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Their reply:
......thanks for your interest in our keyboards. We have had many requests for a tenkeyless, buckling spring keyboard. It is on our new product wish list and some effort has begun on it's development. It takes 8 to 12 months to bring a new product to market.
Best regards,
Customer Service
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Woot - This is going on my MUST HAVE list
Thanks for sharing
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I keep telling myself that it's just a dream, they'll never do it but then stuff like this always sucks me back in.
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I got the exact same response tp4. I know it will happen eventually
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I got the exact same response tp4. I know it will happen eventually
Just tell us you didn't get it 10 years ago.
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Nah it was recent. About three weeks ago, when I saw iMav's thread asking everybody to spam Unicomp.
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Wouldn't it be great if they made a buckling spring keyboard the size of the Poker? :D
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Nah it was recent. About three weeks ago, when I saw iMav's thread asking everybody to spam Unicomp.
" iMav's thread asking everybody to spam Unicomp" -> Oh - so we torture them until they say whatever we want.
This practice can lead to unreliable information.
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I don't mean it like that, lol. By "spam", I mean he wanted all us geeks to go submit a 1 or 2 line request for a TKL board, and to show our appreciation and attention for the company / SSK boards. I shouldn't have said spam
Edit;
Besides, it's the person's job, who ever it is, that looks at the support tickets. They get payed to "be tortured" ;)
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Just look at the Red Alert for buckling spring thread and how long a month has been. Le sigh.
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I think at this point, Unicomp Time(TM) has eclipsed Valve Time(TM).
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ask this question again in a year. the answer will be "soon™".
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I think at this point, Unicomp Time(TM) has eclipsed Valve Time(TM).
Lol, when will Half-Life 3 come out? About the same time the Unicomp tenkeyless comes out.
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Reminds me of how they wanted to make a buckling spring Mighty Mouse (aka. M4-1) It never happened in the end.
That said, if they are going to make one this time around, I hope a trackpoint option will be available.
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just pray they don't pull a duke nuke'em on us.
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just pray they don't pull a duke nuke'em on us.
I don't care if they take 10 years... but if it comes out really sh_ttty... I would be angry...
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I really want this thing to come out right now. My Model M is great and all, but reaching my mouse is really starting to hurt my arm after adjusting to TKL's.
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I really want this thing to come out right now. My Model M is great and all, but reaching my mouse is really starting to hurt my arm after adjusting to TKL's.
There is a easy fix for that... Learn left hand mouse driving.
Brain catches up really fast.
I did the switch few years ago and never came back.
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Reminds me of how they wanted to make a buckling spring Mighty Mouse (aka. M4-1) It never happened in the end.
That said, if they are going to make one this time around, I hope a trackpoint option will be available.
Yeah, there's about, oh, a couple hundred thousand reasons for that. Presuming Lenovo was even willing to license them TrackPoint III or IV.
Oh, and then there's the new tooling - would require a new upper plate from scratch due to the EnduraPro != M13. Plus all new chassis tooling - you can't just modify the upper and lower halves.
So yeah. I wouldn't even consider it remotely likely.
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I really want this thing to come out right now. My Model M is great and all, but reaching my mouse is really starting to hurt my arm after adjusting to TKL's.
There is a easy fix for that... Learn left hand mouse driving.
Brain catches up really fast.
I did the switch few years ago and never came back.
That is innovative. I never thought of using a left handed mouse. Do they even sell left handed mice? I'm not sure I'd get used to the buttons being inverted. But I will try it....thanks for the idea!
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That is innovative. I never thought of using a left handed mouse. Do they even sell left handed mice? I'm not sure I'd get used to the buttons being inverted. But I will try it....thanks for the idea!
You can configure them however you want within windows.
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That is innovative. I never thought of using a left handed mouse. Do they even sell left handed mice? I'm not sure I'd get used to the buttons being inverted. But I will try it....thanks for the idea!
You can configure them however you want within windows.
I just found how to do it, thanks!
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Using a left handed mouse routine did the trick!
I never thought using my mouse left handed would be so easy. It's not as hard as it seems.
Thanks a lot to Buckling Spring!
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so did i. it is surprisingly convenient...
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Left hand mousing is great. I just wish there was a left-hand Joy Pen.
I keep mice on both sides now, a trusty old Microsoft Wheel Mouse Optical on the left and Joy Pen on right. Very flexible and conveniwnt if you have the desk space.
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i will believe unicomp's tkl buck spring board when i see it. also, if and when unicopm finally decides to make these they better not try to equip them with plastic cases. i need my buck spring boards heavy heavy.
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i will believe unicomp's tkl buck spring board when i see it. also, if and when unicopm finally decides to make these they better not try to equip them with plastic cases. i need my buck spring boards heavy heavy.
Apologies for the thread necromancy, but I'm wondering why they wouldn't just make them the same as the old IBM branded ones: I bought three of the 85 key space savers from Unicomp a couple of years or so back and they're really very nice keyboards; surely they could just start making them again? I hope they resume the old heavy-duty casing, as much as I like the newer 104-key Ultra Classic types, they're slightly creaky in comparison.
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they should make m15
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Reminds me of how they wanted to make a buckling spring Mighty Mouse (aka. M4-1) It never happened in the end.
That said, if they are going to make one this time around, I hope a trackpoint option will be available.
Yeah, there's about, oh, a couple hundred thousand reasons for that. Presuming Lenovo was even willing to license them TrackPoint III or IV.
Oh, and then there's the new tooling - would require a new upper plate from scratch due to the EnduraPro != M13. Plus all new chassis tooling - you can't just modify the upper and lower halves.
So yeah. I wouldn't even consider it remotely likely.
I was moreso referring to their resistive pointing stick. Not quite as good as the Lenovo one, but I'd settle for it.
they should make m15
There's all sorts of mess over the M15, there was a patent dispute with the inventor of the original Goldtouch keyboards, and the tooling was sold to Maxiswitch who subsequently 'misplaced' it.