Last week the UNICOMP 122 key buckling spring keyboard arrived.
I've been doing a lot of programming on it, here's some of my thoughts.
I ordered the USB variant, but got a PS/2 variant delivered.
The unit cost $105 plus $55 shipping to Germany.
There was no customs process and within a day of arriving in Cologne it
was at my door in Berlin the next morning at 9 AM.
The keyboard is a lot heavier than most keyboards on the market.
It does not have any rubber feet, because it doesn't seem to need any.
With the stands, it slips just a tiny bit. Probably negligible.
The keys are as you'd expect, exceptional buckling spring ones.
For the same price you'd get those gaming mechanical keyboard with MX
clone switches, which don't even come close to the performance of MX black
switches.
This is a different category altogether. These feel similar to my old MX
Black keyboard, just with that Model M click everyone knows and loves.
Consider me a fan!
Running the keyboard through an adapter (I'd use PS/2, but my machine simply
does not sport a port) gets messy. It seems some of the extra F keys get
converted to something else in the process.
This makes me, obviously, not happy.
I bought the keyboard to get access to extra keys, which I do need for my
macros and program hotkeys.
I have not tried it on Linux, but that's how it seems to act on OpenBSD.
I'd expect Linux to operate more or less the same in that regard.
Other than that annoyance, I am happy with the purchase.
You can do a whole lot worse for $105.
-- Marco