The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
New keyboard is go. Repeat, new keyboard is go.
My brand-new Unicomp keyboard just arrived. Makes my typing sound a lot faster. No unintended cAPS lOCK. I'm having some finger-alignment issues, and I may want to raise my seat about half an inch, but so far I'm happy. Especially comparing it to the cheap Logitech that just went to the Emergency Spares pile.
The keyboard arrived in a box of suitable size, packed within a box more suited to a 5-octave keyboard that had me worried about desk space. The inner box, while reassuring in terms of dimensions, had a disconcerting rattle. Two of the keycaps were indeed loose... and there was a note detailing how to re-install any keycaps that had come loose in shipment, including how to deal with a dislocated spacebar. Not bothering to read the note first, I just snapped the caps back on: no problem.
The whole thing does have a good, solid, quality feel to it. The caps may be dislodgeable, but they're designed to be removable and replaceable, and it's not like they show any signs of springing off while I'm typing.
OK, so it's not one of those cutesy manual-typewriter-styled keyboards. Nor a multi-colored gaming keyboard that lights up. And it doesn't articulate. But it's a proper PC keyboard, dang it, right out of the days when IBM still knew how to make keyboards! And it's made in Kentucky!
Hm. One cautionary note: it's designed for use in a clean office environment; there's no protection against ingress of dust, food, cat hair, beer, flying solder blobs, etc. So I won't be getting more of these for use in the lab, workshop, or other messy settings.
And now, I'd better do some writing on a report for a client. And then maybe code some Python or something.
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