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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re 2 button mouse + Inferno 
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 13:08:34 -0400
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	gone bad out of about 40 in more than 5 years).
	The Lexmark keyboard business was bought by
	Unicomp and the keyboards are still available but,
	as you say, not cheap - $99.

You can get them for $89 if you order the one without
the silly pointing stick under the J key.  You have to call
them to order that one; it's not available via the web.
They refer to it as the ``M4 without pointing stick''.

As Digby pointed out, the tactile response on the Unicomp
keyboards is different from most.  It's somewhat similar
to some full-size laptop keyboards though.  It took me about
a month to get fully used to typing on it (no typos).

	Folks may be interested in the Happy Hacker keyboard.
	They have a Lite model which costs $69, and a
	"multi-platform" model which costs $139.00.

The Happy Hacking people have done a good job of
marketing, which Unicomp has not. I know a fair number
of people who swear by the Happy Hacker keyboards,
but I can't stand them (the keyboards, not the people).
Despite claims of being full-sized, they seem to be on the
small side, and I have a very hard time typing on
them, much more than when I started using the 
Lexmark/Unicomp models.  Maybe if I gave it a month.

In short, both the Unicomp and the Happy Hacking keyboards
seem to be very person-dependent; type before you buy.

Russ