[rescue] What would you pay for a Type 5 keyboard?

[Mouse]

> [...] the end result would still be a twenty-year-old keyboard.  Type
> 4s are dropping like flies now, and Type 5s won't be far behind.

As in, existing ones are breaking?

My type-3s are still going strong.  I've had _one_ type-3 fail in the
last...two decades for sure, three decades I think.  Coming up on a
(short-scale) billion keystrokes, at a rough guess; while admittedly
that's spread across multiple type-3s, I'd say I've got at least two
type-3s that have each seen multiple hundred million keystrokes.

Maybe my perception that the type-4 and type-5 are cheaper designs is
well-founded?  They certainly _feel_ cheaper.  (Here using "cheaper" as
distinct from "less expensive".)

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