Yes, I have a life, but ... I'm obsessed with that keyboard. I still-framed the trailer and scanned through 900 keyboard images on NewEgg, then hundreds of Google Images pictures and finally identified it as a Unicomp Customizer 104 - made in Kentucky! Now I want one, because, well, after learning he worked on TA and was the lead on SupCom, Jon's kind of my programmer hero these days. :ugeek: Any other programmers out there using that thing? I remember the IBM Model M and could really fly on those buckling spring keys. The only problem I might have with it is trying to type quietly on those mornings I can't sleep and wake up at 3am... I think it'd wake my wife at the other end of the house! :lol:
It is a unicomp. I went with black and with a windows keys. Other than that it's exactly like an IBM keyboard. My dad worked for IBM for 25 years so I grew up typing on their stuff. At home I almost exclusively use a laptop though.
Gonna necro this because it was the start of a new fantastic obsession. Have since used a Das Keyboard w/blues, DK w/browns (sold to a very good friend), K70 w/reds. Friend now looking to purchase Model M and I'm now thinking about building one from scratch, possibly w/Alps. MAVOR! Look what you've done. Cheers.
Ah, that classic "clickety-click". I have a Unicomp as well, though I use a ergo keyboard most of the time (darned RSIs), and the sound always brings back fond memories. Edit: It's absolutely baffling to me that neither Unicomp nor anyone else has made a buckling-spring switch keyboard with a modern split curve ergonomic layout, a la the old MS Natural Keyboard Pro. The sales would be staggering.
Ive been using a Microsoft Digital Pro keyboard for decade now...it has so many cool buttons on it that my desktop has zero icons bc I can activate anything right on the keyboard...email, browser, any app, volume control, sleep mode, ect ect...Is there anything out there comparable?
According to my quick google search, the keyboard is mechanical, aka has physical buttons and stuff. The only catch is that it has some extra programmable buttons. I have a keyboard of unknown model that has programmable buttons, but tbh... I never ever used those, but the WASD buttons had already lost their paint.
I do use the programmable buttons..Its a lot quicker than scrolling with the mouse to startup a program..I simply press 1 and itll open up the first program in my taskbar. Or if I want to increase or decrease volume no need to do any clicking on the taskbar for that either.
"Any keyboard that incorporates a metal spring". Mechanical Keyboard Guide: http://wiki.geekhack.org/index.php?title=Mechanical_Keyboards
No worries, man- just that "mechanical keyboard" = keyboard with mechanical keyswitches (as opposed to the very common membrane style). The term "mechanical keyboard" has no correlation with auxiliary/programmable buttons. A Microsoft Digital Pro keyboard has no significance to this thread.
Thanks! Yep, that's where the real keyboard nerds hang out. Fun site to check out occasionally- the amount of time, effort, and money some of those members put into their keyboards is truly ... um ... nuts.
