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

[Lionel Peterson]

If you click thru to options you can order one of several key layouts (HHKB
and a couple others) & styles (unprinted or printed key caps in various
colors).

At $400, a bit steep, but I'm certain there's a market for that type of thing.
I did chuckle at the opportunity to pay 10% more ($39) for a "low serial
number" keyboard!

Ken

> On Jun 9, 2021, at 04:25, Mike Meredith <very at zonky.org> wrote:
>
> o;?Hi!
>
> Tuning in late ...
>
> I was going to suggest looking at https://www.modelfkeyboards.com/ (the
> keyboard has a HHKB-style Split right shift and split backspace layout
> that is a reasonable replica of the Unix layout sans special keys down
> the left (on a Type5)). It's a left of field suggestion and the sticker
> price is /high/, but it's solid enough to outlast a lifetime of typing.
>
>> On Fri, 4 Jun 2021 14:43:23 -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
>>  The tech side is easy.  The plastics and mass production parts are
>> hard.  Since some unnamed orange person Made Manufacturing
>
> It should be noted that the keyboard above was a "hobby project"
> started by 'Ellipse'. Took ~5 years so it's not an easy thing (and the
> manufacturing was done in China), but it's not impossible.
>
> --
> Mike Meredith (http://zonky.org/)
>
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