What happened?! Can anybody explain what in the name of Sam Hill is going on? Is something up at Unicomp?
What happened to the Mini-M?
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JCMax
- Location: United States
- Main keyboard: Unicomp New Model M
- Main mouse: Anker Vertical Mouse
- Favorite switch: Clciky-tactile
I was browsing on Unicomp's website and I was thinking about getting the Mini-M. And now it is not posted anywhere on their site!
What happened?! Can anybody explain what in the name of Sam Hill is going on? Is something up at Unicomp?
What happened?! Can anybody explain what in the name of Sam Hill is going on? Is something up at Unicomp?
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CoolPenguin1
- Location: US
- Main keyboard: Model F AT
- Main mouse: Razer Naga X
- Favorite switch: Capacitive Buckling Springs
A quote from the homepage of their website
"As many of you have noticed, last week we had to suddenly withdraw availability of the Mini M. Unfortunately, as with a large number of companies that use electronics, our supply of processors used with the Mini M has not been available for two years. We finally ran out. We have had two aborted efforts at redesigning the controller card for the Mini M. In both cases, the processors we choose became unavailable. We have a third design underway that uses a processor we believe will have ongoing availability. However, we are still weeks away from having a functional controller card. Rest assured, The Mini M will be back but it's going to take a little while.
While we don't yet have an estimated date for renewed availability of the the Mini M, we're hopeful it will be within the next couple of months. When we have a better estimate we'll post an update. Thank you to all our customers for your patronage."
"As many of you have noticed, last week we had to suddenly withdraw availability of the Mini M. Unfortunately, as with a large number of companies that use electronics, our supply of processors used with the Mini M has not been available for two years. We finally ran out. We have had two aborted efforts at redesigning the controller card for the Mini M. In both cases, the processors we choose became unavailable. We have a third design underway that uses a processor we believe will have ongoing availability. However, we are still weeks away from having a functional controller card. Rest assured, The Mini M will be back but it's going to take a little while.
While we don't yet have an estimated date for renewed availability of the the Mini M, we're hopeful it will be within the next couple of months. When we have a better estimate we'll post an update. Thank you to all our customers for your patronage."
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Muirium
- µ
- Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
- Main keyboard: HHKB Type-S with Bluetooth by Hasu
- Main mouse: Apple Magic Mouse
- Favorite switch: Gotta Try 'Em All
- DT Pro Member: µ
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Seirin-Blu
- Location: USA
- Main keyboard: Keychron K12
- Main mouse: Logitech M705
- Favorite switch: Black Switches of Any Sort
My lord dude. Was this really necessary?Muirium wrote: 08 Aug 2022, 22:20 LAST EVA—FINAL CHANSE!—2 GET UR HANDS ON MYTHICAL I**B**M __MODEL M___
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hellothere
- Location: Mesa, AZ USA
- Main keyboard: Lots
- Main mouse: CST2545W-RC
- Favorite switch: TopreAlpsHallEffectTopreAlpsHallEffectTopreAlps
Yes. And someone needs to take the user name "My Lord Dude."
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hellothere
- Location: Mesa, AZ USA
- Main keyboard: Lots
- Main mouse: CST2545W-RC
- Favorite switch: TopreAlpsHallEffectTopreAlpsHallEffectTopreAlps
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My Lord Dude
- Location: US-VA
- Main keyboard: Vortex Race 3 with Cherry MX Blues
- Main mouse: G502
- Favorite switch: Buckling Spring over a capacitive PCB
I got you bro
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hellothere
- Location: Mesa, AZ USA
- Main keyboard: Lots
- Main mouse: CST2545W-RC
- Favorite switch: TopreAlpsHallEffectTopreAlpsHallEffectTopreAlps
I really should watch The Big Lebowski.
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D W
- Location: United States of America
- Main keyboard: Unicomp PC122 UB40L5A
- Main mouse: Logitech M720 Triathlon
- Favorite switch: Buckling-Spring
AWESOME!!
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fohat
- Elder Messenger
- Location: Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
- Main keyboard: Model F 122-key terminal
- Main mouse: Microsoft Optical Mouse
- Favorite switch: Model F Buckling Spring
- DT Pro Member: 0158
I have never heard that astonishing bit of language censorship/cleanup.
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apastuszak
- Location: Bensalem, PA, USA
- Main keyboard: IBM Model M
- Main mouse: Kensington Slimblade Trackball
- Favorite switch: Buckling Spring
- DT Pro Member: -
- Contact:
I think this would be a good opportunity for Unicomp to design a new board that works with QMK and is flashable.
How much money did Unicomp waste mailing Mini-Ms back and forth to fix the issues that it had with some keys not working? I know I sent mine back to them 3 times. Having the ability to flash the firmware would have saved them a ton of money.
How much money did Unicomp waste mailing Mini-Ms back and forth to fix the issues that it had with some keys not working? I know I sent mine back to them 3 times. Having the ability to flash the firmware would have saved them a ton of money.
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stormcrash
- Location: United States
- Main keyboard: Unicomp Classic
- Main mouse: Microsoft wireless mouse
- Favorite switch: IBM Bucling Springs
Probably zero since the goal of finding the new chip is to use the same software as much as possible. Besides I thought the problem turned out to be a design defect in the controller board not the firmware that was causing the Q issues in the endapastuszak wrote: 17 Aug 2022, 14:59 I think this would be a good opportunity for Unicomp to design a new board that works with QMK and is flashable.
How much money did Unicomp waste mailing Mini-Ms back and forth to fix the issues that it had with some keys not working? I know I sent mine back to them 3 times. Having the ability to flash the firmware would have saved them a ton of money.
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LambdaCore
- Location: United States
- Main keyboard: HHKB Professional Classic (currently in rotation)
- Main mouse: Logitech MX518
- Favorite switch: Capacitive Buckling Springs
The dream would be a complete revamp of their stock alongside a new Mini-M, but of course that probably won't happen. A girl can dream though...
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apastuszak
- Location: Bensalem, PA, USA
- Main keyboard: IBM Model M
- Main mouse: Kensington Slimblade Trackball
- Favorite switch: Buckling Spring
- DT Pro Member: -
- Contact:
I believe it was both. Some keyboards got a firmware update, and that fixed the issue. It did not fix it for me. They offered me a second firmware update, but could not guarantee it would fix the issue. I told them to hold off until they had a permanent fix, to avoid all these shipping charges. When the controller board fix came out, then I sent it back.stormcrash wrote: 19 Aug 2022, 01:54Probably zero since the goal of finding the new chip is to use the same software as much as possible. Besides I thought the problem turned out to be a design defect in the controller board not the firmware that was causing the Q issues in the endapastuszak wrote: 17 Aug 2022, 14:59 I think this would be a good opportunity for Unicomp to design a new board that works with QMK and is flashable.
How much money did Unicomp waste mailing Mini-Ms back and forth to fix the issues that it had with some keys not working? I know I sent mine back to them 3 times. Having the ability to flash the firmware would have saved them a ton of money.
But now Unicomp is switching processors. I think it may save them some headache and costs if these new controller boards could be flashed by end-users. That way if there a firmware bug with these new controller boards, they don't need to mail boards back and forth.