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Offline dnm

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oh hi.
« on: Wed, 04 March 2015, 14:28:47 »
My first thread was a, 'help me help me' thread, so I figured I should at least make some effort to introduce myself instead.

I'm a keyboard nerd.  I own an M13, a das keyboard, and owned a unicomp, but threw it away because it was a very very poor product.  I'm really really really hoping for the miniguru keyboard to happen, as I'd absolutely love one of those.

I'm a software dev.  Canadian.  I don't have much else interesting to say.
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Re: oh hi.
« Reply #1 on: Wed, 04 March 2015, 14:30:54 »
Hello there and welcome to Geekhack! Good to see another Canadian on the forums.  :p  Let me know if you have any questions and I can try to help.
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Offline rowdy

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Re: oh hi.
« Reply #2 on: Mon, 09 March 2015, 02:14:40 »
Welcome to Geekhack!

Threw a keyboard away?  A buckling spring keyboard?? :eek:

Was it really that bad?
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"Because keyboards are accessories to PC makers, they focus on minimizing the manufacturing costs. But that’s incorrect. It’s in HHKB’s slogan, but when America’s cowboys were in the middle of a trip and their horse died, they would leave the horse there. But even if they were in the middle of a desert, they would take their saddle with them. The horse was a consumable good, but the saddle was an interface that their bodies had gotten used to. In the same vein, PCs are consumable goods, while keyboards are important interfaces." - Eiiti Wada

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Offline dnm

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Re: oh hi.
« Reply #3 on: Mon, 09 March 2015, 08:22:19 »
Yep.  It was super awful.  The Unicomp keyboards are very cheaply built despite their price tag.  The plastic is thin and the keyboard creaks and pops when you pick it up, of its put under any torque at all (eg the torque it undergoes when you lift it).

It worked for about 3 months, then I lost ~8-9 keys in the bottom left of the keyboard.  They just stopped responding.

I sent it back for warranty (at my expense, of course), and they fixed it and mailed it back.

2 months later, I lost 5-6 other keys in the bottom centre.

And the mouse button still worked, but lost pretty much all of its tactile feedback and had to be smashed to get it to respond.
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Re: oh hi.
« Reply #4 on: Mon, 09 March 2015, 10:59:26 »
Must have been an EnduraPro or something by the description.  I've never used them.  Never had trouble with my Unicomp Classic 103.
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Re: oh hi.
« Reply #5 on: Sun, 15 March 2015, 01:37:48 »
Quote from: dnm on Mon, 09 March 2015, 08:22:19
Yep.  It was super awful.  The Unicomp keyboards are very cheaply built despite their price tag.  The plastic is thin and the keyboard creaks and pops when you pick it up, of its put under any torque at all (eg the torque it undergoes when you lift it).

It worked for about 3 months, then I lost ~8-9 keys in the bottom left of the keyboard.  They just stopped responding.

I sent it back for warranty (at my expense, of course), and they fixed it and mailed it back.

2 months later, I lost 5-6 other keys in the bottom centre.

And the mouse button still worked, but lost pretty much all of its tactile feedback and had to be smashed to get it to respond.

That's not good :(

And there are all those tales about 30 year old IBM Model M being restored and brought back from the dead!
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"Because keyboards are accessories to PC makers, they focus on minimizing the manufacturing costs. But that’s incorrect. It’s in HHKB’s slogan, but when America’s cowboys were in the middle of a trip and their horse died, they would leave the horse there. But even if they were in the middle of a desert, they would take their saddle with them. The horse was a consumable good, but the saddle was an interface that their bodies had gotten used to. In the same vein, PCs are consumable goods, while keyboards are important interfaces." - Eiiti Wada

NEC APC-H4100E | Ducky DK9008 Shine MX blue LED red | Ducky DK9008 Shine MX blue LED green | Link 900243-08 | CM QFR MX black | KeyCool 87 white MX reds | HHKB 2 Pro | Model M 02-Mar-1993 | Model M 29-Nov-1995 | CM Trigger (broken) | CM QFS MX green | Ducky DK9087 Shine 3 TKL Yellow Edition MX black | Lexmark SSK 21-Apr-1994 | IBM SSK 13-Oct-1987 | CODE TKL MX clear | Model M 122 01-Jun-1988

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