Keyboard Unicomp M2 (German Layout)
With German layout and USB or PS2 connection.
Unicomp from Lexington in the US state of Kentucky has been rebuilding IBM's keyboard legend for a decade, and for the most part on the old tools acquired from IBM. Not only the buckling spring technology is a 1:1 takeover, but also, for example, the keyboard caps, which are not made of laser-engraved ABS, but PBT inscribed in dye-sublimation printing, as in the Model M, and remain endlessly legible. Even after years of use, they do not show the slightest hint of fading or smudging.
If you have (or are retrofitting) a PS2 port on your computer, you should use it: The keyboard gets its own interrupt and is thus always functional, even before the start of the operating system (e.g. for settings in the BIOS).
Technical Information
Height adjustable.
Dimensions: 4.5 x 47.5 x 19 cm
Gewicht: 1,7 kg
The Unicomp M2 is available in Germany only from us.
More details
Typing instead of swiping: IBM Model M. They are available again. As the Unicomp M2 keyboard.
The IBM Model M keyboard was first produced from 1984 to 1999. These heavy and stable devices (1.7 kg) owe their enduring reputation to their superior mechanics: Their keys are activated by a real coil spring that buckles under the typist's finger pressure (‘buckling spring’), thereby activating a hammer that switches two conductive membranes and thus triggers the ‘keystroke’, or more precisely the interrupt. The counter-pressure of the spring and its reset behaviour provide the typist with unrivalled tactile and acoustic feedback, whereby their typing motor skills are retrained, significantly accelerating their typing and drastically reducing the number of typing errors. And it doesn't matter whether you type with two, four or ten fingers. A real buckling spring is vastly superior to the usual rubber dome and membrane keys, as well as the mechanical keyboards with Cherry MX switches that are so popular with gamers.
The American tech magazine The Verge describes the keyboard as ‘an amazing typing experience’, the German IT site golem.de states: ‘The buckling spring mechanism of the keys is a dream come true, especially for frequent typists’ and hackaday.com even speaks of ‘God's own keyboard’.
