@DonMcCollough @brandon @elfio
A pity they only seem to offer US layout.
@normandc @DonMcCollough @elfio Not true, they offer other layouts:
@brandon @DonMcCollough @elfio
Blasted French Canadian layout, that's all that they all offer now. Canadian Multilingual is vastly superior. I purchased one 20 years ago, but it broke down. (Of course I always run Canadian Multilingual on my OSes, but it sure would be nice to have the proper characters printed on the keys. Guess I'll have to order stickers from Beaujoie.
@normandc @brandon @DonMcCollough@fosstodon.org @elfio
I stick to standard US 104 (anglophone Canadian here), but I think I know the feeling because Unicomp stopped making a proper US 104 layout for buckling spring boards back in 2013.
https://www.pckeyboard.com/mm5/graphics/ProductNews7-25-13.pdf
(I had to set an eBay watch to get my current keyboard plus the couple of spares I eventually managed to snag at a reasonable price. One of these days, I'm planning to buy a box of replacement parts.)
@normandc @brandon @DonMcCollough@fosstodon.org @elfio
Around the same price as a brand-new keyboard with model F switches.
(CA$400 for the giant retro one, US$370 for the new ultra-compact one. Can't remember if the eBay price I'm remembering is before or after shipping.)
Economies of scale aside, the Model M switches *were* specifically designed to be cost-reduced versions of the Model F switches.
(And the Model F switches were designed to approximate the feel of IBM Selectric typewriters.)
@ssokolow @normandc @brandon @DonMcCollough wow, I think I wouldn't spend 400€ in a keyboard in any case...
@ssokolow @normandc @brandon @DonMcCollough you have a point indeed. That's what I think now, but if I get paid more then maybe haha
@normandc @brandon @DonMcCollough@fosstodon.org @elfio
...though I can only assume I'm a glutton for punishment because, if I could afford to spend $400 on a keyboard, I'd snag one of the IBM 6110347 keyboards that turn up on eBay periodically and hook it up via an adapter and some key remapping.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_JTZo2rKmw
(The closest you can get to a US101 or US104 layout in Model F switches, given that https://www.modelfkeyboards.com/ only does ultra compact layouts.)