Being a staff buyout, the core of the company, the outset of their business plan could be quite different than Cherry or Topre. This reflects their business behaviour. It's a shame because there is potentail there. Even the brand name Unicomp and their second grade tooling might be worth quite a bit. Yes, the Chinese are lurking...but on the other hand look at the product announcement right now:
http://unicomp.com/
Unicomp SSK... for real this time?
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Muirium
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Spacesaver != SSK. It's just their misleading naming system. See any TKLs here?
http://pckeyboard.com/page/category/FeaturedProducts
http://pckeyboard.com/page/category/FeaturedProducts
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seebart
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Oh I knew about their Spacesaver naming, but a least it looks like their doing something!
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Muirium
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Amazing to the point of completely stunning. You know, like aliens showing up and giving us all… uh… fancy keyboards.
@Seebart: Unicomp hasn't updated that page in *years*. Check the Wayback Machine for yourself. Here's how it was in 2012!
https://web.archive.org/web/20121105025 ... icomp.com/
Still talking about the same "most recently updated products!" Wouldn't surprise me if it stays that way for years to come. The next update being either an announcement of their sale to another company or their going out of business. That plane's flying with an empty cockpit.
@Seebart: Unicomp hasn't updated that page in *years*. Check the Wayback Machine for yourself. Here's how it was in 2012!
https://web.archive.org/web/20121105025 ... icomp.com/
Still talking about the same "most recently updated products!" Wouldn't surprise me if it stays that way for years to come. The next update being either an announcement of their sale to another company or their going out of business. That plane's flying with an empty cockpit.
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seebart
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Right. Because I never visit their website they fooled me. Oh well. The whole outfit is pretty much dead then.
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No!
Unicomp is an old-fashioned company with great customer service. They are very good to work with, and even upgraded some of their dye-sub printing equipment recently to provide better quality legends. Just last year they added "red/green/blue alert" cap sets which are very nice.
Just don't expect any real R&D from them. People wanting updated SSKs hammer them with queries that get answered with something marginally stronger than "well, maybe" but really fall closer to the old joke that "2 hours of begging is not the equivalent of foreplay"