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

[Mouse]

>>> Type 4s are dropping like flies now, and Type 5s won't be far
>>> behind.
>> As in, existing ones are breaking?
> Yes, heartbreakingly.  Last year I went through my personal stock of
> Type 4s looking for two good ones to set up at the museum.  I found
> two good ones, and a stack of about twenty with key failures.

Hm, I should check my type-4s.  I don't recall actually testing them
recently.  And my 4c/5/etc.

>> My type-3s are still going strong.  [...]
> Excellent.  But the Type 3 is a very different design.

It is.  I'm quite pleased with it; it's my second-favourite keyboard,
and my most-favourite that I actually have any of.

> The Type 2 is different still, and is another one of my favorites.

I've never cared for it.  It always feels mushy to me, and I do not
like the tactile bump partway down.

>> Maybe my perception that the type-4 and type-5 are cheaper designs
>> is well-founded?
> A bit, yes.  The Type 4 is a capacitive keyboard that uses the little
> mylar-ish disk glued to a foam pad.  They can be rebuilt, but it's
> very time-consuming [...]

That does not surprise me.  Doing that any way other than via an
automated fab line is the kind of thing I would expect to be
time-consuming.

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