Please reach out to me over email if you are not able to fix it through the manual's step by step setup instructions. As noted on the product page, the Round 1 boards required extra setup work and work over the initial several months of usage to repair or replace any improperly QC'ed modules. The manual explains how to test each module and fix the ones that don't work, with the help of the pandrew utility's signal level monitor tool. Every key module needs to be tested as one out of place module can affect the sensing.
I have answered the powdercoating question many times now; please see the Model F thread's replies. The powdercoating formulation on the F62 and F77 classic style batch produced many years ago and still shipped today was not a durable as the improved formulation. Rather than throw away all of the remaining F62 and F77 inventory, everything was discounted $100 and this was disclosed on the project website so everyone can make their own decision.
Powdercoating did not exist in the 1920s; you may be referring to something that was painted or maybe even japanned, which is an extremely durable coating used on various phones and other products of the 1920s.
Beam Spring 104+SSK Reproduction Project! First Batch In Stock, Shipping early next year after New Model F Project
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Ellipse
- Location: United States
- Main keyboard: Brand New Model F Keyboards
- DT Pro Member: -
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Ellipse
- Location: United States
- Main keyboard: Brand New Model F Keyboards
- DT Pro Member: -
- Contact:
Container shipment update:
The container shipment was delivered last week without issue.
Over the coming weeks I will be confirming mailing addresses, updating the manual for the round 2 boards, inspecting inventory, and testing the keyboards with Rico's latest Leyden Jar firmware which offers some improvements to the calibration binning. These are the first beam spring keyboards to use Rico's Leyden Jar controller!
As always there is still time to add on to your order any additional key sets, first aid kits, LED overlays and other parts to ship with your keyboard. You can also order the skip the line custom/low serial product add-on.
In other words, shipping will not start for several weeks, and there are a couple hundred boards to ship, so this will take quite some time. And as I mentioned with a previous update, please do not ask me which batch your keyboard is in or when your order will ship. As per a previous update:
"The factory has completed just about all needed variations except for nearly all the black and industrial gray cases; most of those will be shipping in the container shipment departing in a few months from now. If you picked one of those two case colors and want to get your keyboard in the shortest amount of time, you can request switching to Off-White/Beige, Dark Blue, Light Blue, or Regular Gray by emailing me. You can't switch to Black, Industrial Gray, or True Red. In other words, just about everyone who has ordered a B104 is expected to be in the current shipment, except the black and industrial gray case orders and possibly a few other exceptions; being in one shipment or another is not guaranteed."
The container shipment was delivered last week without issue.
Over the coming weeks I will be confirming mailing addresses, updating the manual for the round 2 boards, inspecting inventory, and testing the keyboards with Rico's latest Leyden Jar firmware which offers some improvements to the calibration binning. These are the first beam spring keyboards to use Rico's Leyden Jar controller!
As always there is still time to add on to your order any additional key sets, first aid kits, LED overlays and other parts to ship with your keyboard. You can also order the skip the line custom/low serial product add-on.
In other words, shipping will not start for several weeks, and there are a couple hundred boards to ship, so this will take quite some time. And as I mentioned with a previous update, please do not ask me which batch your keyboard is in or when your order will ship. As per a previous update:
"The factory has completed just about all needed variations except for nearly all the black and industrial gray cases; most of those will be shipping in the container shipment departing in a few months from now. If you picked one of those two case colors and want to get your keyboard in the shortest amount of time, you can request switching to Off-White/Beige, Dark Blue, Light Blue, or Regular Gray by emailing me. You can't switch to Black, Industrial Gray, or True Red. In other words, just about everyone who has ordered a B104 is expected to be in the current shipment, except the black and industrial gray case orders and possibly a few other exceptions; being in one shipment or another is not guaranteed."
Last edited by Ellipse on 22 Apr 2026, 22:49, edited 1 time in total.
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Ellipse
- Location: United States
- Main keyboard: Brand New Model F Keyboards
- DT Pro Member: -
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Here is a summary of the Round 2 improvements over the Round 1 beam spring boards:
An improved, dampened, and more refined sound while typing, due to:
• Extra case material and foam on top of the modules (like on the originals) for added dampening. The casing is made from custom-bent metal (see below factory videos) whose dimensions were based on scaling the measurements you kindly provided me. The Round 2 keyboards were made to look like the classic appearance of the rounded case beam spring boards (basically all the boards except the angular 3278 and 3279 boards (a prototype was made of this design but most folks disliked it). It's also inspired by the process used to make the IBM Displaywriter keyboard case (the bottom was stamped and folded, not die cast; the new beam spring boards were all stamped, folded, and welded with custom-made stamping tools).
• Improvements during a long R&D process over the past few years (the injection molds for the modules was redone and the beam module metal materials were changed to make them sound closer to the originals; though as I mentioned in my updates, the goal of this project was to bring back the beam spring mechanism and not to exactly recreate the sound or feel as exactly as with the Model F project).
• Also the inner assemblies are now closed with a torque screwdriver, which allows you to specify the torque and it will let you know if the torque is too high and if the screws are too tight. The purpose of this process is to optimize how tightly the bottom and top inner assemblies are attached to each other. In our research over the past few years to get these keyboards to be in line with IBM's standards, we have found that having a slight looseness to the assembly, as shown in one of the below videos, results in a far nicer sound and typing experience. You don't need a torque screwdriver for your own maintenance of these keyboards, you can just back off the tightness a few turns by eyeing it and keep things loose for optimal sound and performance.
Additional improvements:
• These are the very first beam spring keyboards with Rico's new open source RP2040-based Leyden Jar controller (same controller as on the F122's). All the new Model F and beam spring boards still run Vial. These now have enough memory and pins for 18 instead of 16 columns, improved matrix scanning speed, as well as additional Vial features, including layers and macros, that did not fit in the ATMEGA32U2 used in the xwhatsit controllers. The other keyboards that do not require 18 columns (B62, BSSK, etc.) will continue to use the xwhatsit controllers until stock runs out, as I've noted on the forums. I stocked up during the chip shortage many years back, before the Leyden Jar was released.
• Improved QC - no one is expected to need to adjust the bend of the metal parts inside the module due to a factory QC error with some of the original modules that was disclosed at the time. The most common issue is just a flyplate (the metal part connected to the flipper) that gets separated from the rest of the module while in transit. This QC improvement was introduced with the second batch of Round 1 beam spring keyboards which have been in use for a couple years now without major reports of failures.
• Reattaching the flyplate is now even easier than both the IBM and Round 1 originals where you had to use tape and a paperclip. The modules now have a custom-molded press fit plastic washer on top so you can quickly and easily disassemble the module by hand and reattach the flyplate (or replace a damaged inner plastic part). This was also introduced with the second batch of Round 1 beam spring boards which used a glued-on metal washer for each module. Also in general the beam spring is much easier to take apart compared to a Model F; you only need to unscrew the bottom inner assembly plate instead of using pliers to separate it. You can even leave the keys installed (except for the modules that you need to remove to fix, of course). For these reasons, resolving issues requiring disassembly that come up over the years might be even easier and quicker to repair than many issues of the Model F.
• The boards still come with a mini-first aid kit of 4 modules in anticipation that some may break while in shipping, though many folks order the 12 module full first aid kit.
And as always, for folks who have been waiting a while now and want to see the reasons behind the extended production timeline (and for everyone who is curious about the Beam Spring keyboard production journey), everything is explained in detail on the updates page on the project website.
The aforementioned beam spring Round 2 videos:
An improved, dampened, and more refined sound while typing, due to:
• Extra case material and foam on top of the modules (like on the originals) for added dampening. The casing is made from custom-bent metal (see below factory videos) whose dimensions were based on scaling the measurements you kindly provided me. The Round 2 keyboards were made to look like the classic appearance of the rounded case beam spring boards (basically all the boards except the angular 3278 and 3279 boards (a prototype was made of this design but most folks disliked it). It's also inspired by the process used to make the IBM Displaywriter keyboard case (the bottom was stamped and folded, not die cast; the new beam spring boards were all stamped, folded, and welded with custom-made stamping tools).
• Improvements during a long R&D process over the past few years (the injection molds for the modules was redone and the beam module metal materials were changed to make them sound closer to the originals; though as I mentioned in my updates, the goal of this project was to bring back the beam spring mechanism and not to exactly recreate the sound or feel as exactly as with the Model F project).
• Also the inner assemblies are now closed with a torque screwdriver, which allows you to specify the torque and it will let you know if the torque is too high and if the screws are too tight. The purpose of this process is to optimize how tightly the bottom and top inner assemblies are attached to each other. In our research over the past few years to get these keyboards to be in line with IBM's standards, we have found that having a slight looseness to the assembly, as shown in one of the below videos, results in a far nicer sound and typing experience. You don't need a torque screwdriver for your own maintenance of these keyboards, you can just back off the tightness a few turns by eyeing it and keep things loose for optimal sound and performance.
Additional improvements:
• These are the very first beam spring keyboards with Rico's new open source RP2040-based Leyden Jar controller (same controller as on the F122's). All the new Model F and beam spring boards still run Vial. These now have enough memory and pins for 18 instead of 16 columns, improved matrix scanning speed, as well as additional Vial features, including layers and macros, that did not fit in the ATMEGA32U2 used in the xwhatsit controllers. The other keyboards that do not require 18 columns (B62, BSSK, etc.) will continue to use the xwhatsit controllers until stock runs out, as I've noted on the forums. I stocked up during the chip shortage many years back, before the Leyden Jar was released.
• Improved QC - no one is expected to need to adjust the bend of the metal parts inside the module due to a factory QC error with some of the original modules that was disclosed at the time. The most common issue is just a flyplate (the metal part connected to the flipper) that gets separated from the rest of the module while in transit. This QC improvement was introduced with the second batch of Round 1 beam spring keyboards which have been in use for a couple years now without major reports of failures.
• Reattaching the flyplate is now even easier than both the IBM and Round 1 originals where you had to use tape and a paperclip. The modules now have a custom-molded press fit plastic washer on top so you can quickly and easily disassemble the module by hand and reattach the flyplate (or replace a damaged inner plastic part). This was also introduced with the second batch of Round 1 beam spring boards which used a glued-on metal washer for each module. Also in general the beam spring is much easier to take apart compared to a Model F; you only need to unscrew the bottom inner assembly plate instead of using pliers to separate it. You can even leave the keys installed (except for the modules that you need to remove to fix, of course). For these reasons, resolving issues requiring disassembly that come up over the years might be even easier and quicker to repair than many issues of the Model F.
• The boards still come with a mini-first aid kit of 4 modules in anticipation that some may break while in shipping, though many folks order the 12 module full first aid kit.
And as always, for folks who have been waiting a while now and want to see the reasons behind the extended production timeline (and for everyone who is curious about the Beam Spring keyboard production journey), everything is explained in detail on the updates page on the project website.
The aforementioned beam spring Round 2 videos:
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jesseinmx
- Location: Mexico
- Main keyboard: New Model F kishsaver
- Main mouse: apple magic pad
- Favorite switch: buckling spring (for now)
I have some old stanley planes that were japanned... that stuff is tough as beaver's teeth! Nothing made compares. Personally, I love the wear... and when people are over to my office I have them hold the keyboard and they are blown away at the heft. I replaced the cork feet pretty early on, I had a pretty aggressive desk mat that shed that cork in a week, I put rubber bumpers on and never looked back. After I get my BeamSpring I am gonna buff this model-f to a high gloss and enjoy the nickel in it's natural beauty.
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Green Maned Lion
- Location: USA
- Main keyboard: Unicomp New Model M
- Main mouse: X-keys L-Track
- Favorite switch: Buckling Spring
I wish Joe had made the Beamspring and F 122s more like a real battleship, rather than this super M101 sorta layout.
Jesse, the model F is just a crazy heavy thing. I'm typing on an original F122 right now. It weighs a shit ton. I suspect yours is impressive in weight, because it is not that much lighter than my F122, and my F122 is a heck of a lot bigger. But the top case of mine is plastic. Heavy weight does not, in itself, suggest quality, though. The case of the M122 is a better case than the case of the F122, partly because the plastic used is better for long life.
On the M122 I used in my Sprinter, the metal in it is its problem: it's rusting. I've gone to putting silica gel packets into it to stop it from rusting. I'm glad I didn't put an F in there, either Joes or an original. Joe's products have documented quality failures. Partly to avoid Joe's wrath, but also because it is true, quality failures are going to be factor in small batch production of anything. Unicomp's going to have less trouble turning out their multi-millionth next keyboard than Joe is going to have as he boasts of selling 7000 boards- while offering far more variations of substance than Unicomp does.
Old school Rolls-Royces are great; they have a lot more problems than a Mercedes.
Jesse, the model F is just a crazy heavy thing. I'm typing on an original F122 right now. It weighs a shit ton. I suspect yours is impressive in weight, because it is not that much lighter than my F122, and my F122 is a heck of a lot bigger. But the top case of mine is plastic. Heavy weight does not, in itself, suggest quality, though. The case of the M122 is a better case than the case of the F122, partly because the plastic used is better for long life.
On the M122 I used in my Sprinter, the metal in it is its problem: it's rusting. I've gone to putting silica gel packets into it to stop it from rusting. I'm glad I didn't put an F in there, either Joes or an original. Joe's products have documented quality failures. Partly to avoid Joe's wrath, but also because it is true, quality failures are going to be factor in small batch production of anything. Unicomp's going to have less trouble turning out their multi-millionth next keyboard than Joe is going to have as he boasts of selling 7000 boards- while offering far more variations of substance than Unicomp does.
Old school Rolls-Royces are great; they have a lot more problems than a Mercedes.
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Ellipse
- Location: United States
- Main keyboard: Brand New Model F Keyboards
- DT Pro Member: -
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Green Maned Lion your post implies that the keyboards are prone to premature failure due to documented quality failures, which is false.
The new Model F and Beam Spring keyboards have now been out for years at this point, and there are few reports of failures after a year of usage, etc. The issues discussed are primarily cosmetic defects, and almost completely due to the powdercoating on the first batch of keyboards manufactured years ago. Once again, all other powdercoating is completely different and has no known reports of quick wear, despite the earliest of these boards (the die cast compact F62/F77) being out for four years at this point.
Just like those great tools mentioned by jesseinmx, these keyboards can be repaired and maintained even if their cosmetic appearance does not remain pristine, but it is misleading and inflammatory to state that all of these keyboards have quality failures.
The new Model F and Beam Spring keyboards have now been out for years at this point, and there are few reports of failures after a year of usage, etc. The issues discussed are primarily cosmetic defects, and almost completely due to the powdercoating on the first batch of keyboards manufactured years ago. Once again, all other powdercoating is completely different and has no known reports of quick wear, despite the earliest of these boards (the die cast compact F62/F77) being out for four years at this point.
Just like those great tools mentioned by jesseinmx, these keyboards can be repaired and maintained even if their cosmetic appearance does not remain pristine, but it is misleading and inflammatory to state that all of these keyboards have quality failures.
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Ellipse
- Location: United States
- Main keyboard: Brand New Model F Keyboards
- DT Pro Member: -
- Contact:
Here is a summary of the current status of the Round 2 beam spring keyboards, and a recapitulation of the challenges and timeline considerations for projects like this:
The first batch of Round 2 B104's was just delivered, so those boards will be going out over the next few months. The other Round 2 boards are in production and should be completed in the next few months, then they're traveling on a container ship for two months, then I have to mail them out. Should be later this year now that final production is finishing up. Round 1 beam spring boards started shipping years ago; there is still some remaining stock.
What worries some folks is that there is not an exact date that is guaranteed and that you just go to the product page, see a delivery date, click order, and it ships on that date. Why can't it be like that for these projects?
These are extremely small production runs relative to most products and almost everything is assembled by hand. The production of the tooling took far longer than expected, but it was completed late last year when production began on the B104's that were just delivered.
The hardest part of making something like this is getting the tooling set up and properly dialed in to produce parts that meet specifications; after that you are just limited by certain bottlenecks: the relatively slow production time for parts made by laser cutting and bending like most of the beam spring parts (die cast molds for such enormous cases would have been infeasible). They only have one or two of those laser cutting machines and each of the few thousand parts must be made one at a time (see the project's YouTube channel to see them making parts for this project!). If a machine breaks or starts going off spec they have to stop to retool, which might take a day or a week or longer. The accuracy tolerances are extremely high for these keyboard projects: often +/- 0.1mm. If even one key module hole is off by 1mm by accident for the laser cutter, the whole part must be scrapped because two keys would contact each other.
That is why they don't guarantee that they'll finish by an exact date like some web site saying the products will be back in stock on so-and-so date. The order quantities are far lower than what most factories will accept so we must be grateful that the factories will work with us and maintain the high standards that they have maintained.
Around the time that shipments are delivered from the factory to me, then I become the bottleneck, which is much preferable to waiting for the factory for sure! I am answering hundreds of emails, checking orders, confirming addresses, making updates, confirming stock for each variation compared to what was ordered, gathering the thousands of line items, loading the most recent firmware, and doing the final QC checks including testing every key position and taking apart the keyboards to replace bad modules and other failed or damaged parts. This contributes to the backlog as described in the most recent update on the project website. Believe it or not, some folks think that after they order a shipping label automatically comes out of the printer and all someone has to do is attach the shipping label to the box!
The first batch of Round 2 B104's was just delivered, so those boards will be going out over the next few months. The other Round 2 boards are in production and should be completed in the next few months, then they're traveling on a container ship for two months, then I have to mail them out. Should be later this year now that final production is finishing up. Round 1 beam spring boards started shipping years ago; there is still some remaining stock.
What worries some folks is that there is not an exact date that is guaranteed and that you just go to the product page, see a delivery date, click order, and it ships on that date. Why can't it be like that for these projects?
These are extremely small production runs relative to most products and almost everything is assembled by hand. The production of the tooling took far longer than expected, but it was completed late last year when production began on the B104's that were just delivered.
The hardest part of making something like this is getting the tooling set up and properly dialed in to produce parts that meet specifications; after that you are just limited by certain bottlenecks: the relatively slow production time for parts made by laser cutting and bending like most of the beam spring parts (die cast molds for such enormous cases would have been infeasible). They only have one or two of those laser cutting machines and each of the few thousand parts must be made one at a time (see the project's YouTube channel to see them making parts for this project!). If a machine breaks or starts going off spec they have to stop to retool, which might take a day or a week or longer. The accuracy tolerances are extremely high for these keyboard projects: often +/- 0.1mm. If even one key module hole is off by 1mm by accident for the laser cutter, the whole part must be scrapped because two keys would contact each other.
That is why they don't guarantee that they'll finish by an exact date like some web site saying the products will be back in stock on so-and-so date. The order quantities are far lower than what most factories will accept so we must be grateful that the factories will work with us and maintain the high standards that they have maintained.
Around the time that shipments are delivered from the factory to me, then I become the bottleneck, which is much preferable to waiting for the factory for sure! I am answering hundreds of emails, checking orders, confirming addresses, making updates, confirming stock for each variation compared to what was ordered, gathering the thousands of line items, loading the most recent firmware, and doing the final QC checks including testing every key position and taking apart the keyboards to replace bad modules and other failed or damaged parts. This contributes to the backlog as described in the most recent update on the project website. Believe it or not, some folks think that after they order a shipping label automatically comes out of the printer and all someone has to do is attach the shipping label to the box!
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Ellipse
- Location: United States
- Main keyboard: Brand New Model F Keyboards
- DT Pro Member: -
- Contact:
The Round 2 Beam Spring Manual has been completed and is up on the project website now.
Please feel free to email me with any feedback.
Please feel free to email me with any feedback.
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Green Maned Lion
- Location: USA
- Main keyboard: Unicomp New Model M
- Main mouse: X-keys L-Track
- Favorite switch: Buckling Spring
If you drew that inference from my post, you drew it incorrectly. "Quality failures" can mean a lot of things, such as blemished finishes, springs that are not properly attached, and so on like that, which has been documented as part of your boards. I did not mean or intend to imply the 'failure' would be the board dying young. Besides the control card, I can't think of why a capacitive buckling spring board would be prone to a failure that could not be remedied by the replacement of a spring. There isn't much to mechanically fail on this design; if it works mechanically to begin with, it should continue to do so.Ellipse wrote: 18 Apr 2026, 01:45 Green Maned Lion your post implies that the keyboards are prone to premature failure due to documented quality failures, which is false.
The new Model F and Beam Spring keyboards have now been out for years at this point, and there are few reports of failures after a year of usage, etc. The issues discussed are primarily cosmetic defects, and almost completely due to the powdercoating on the first batch of keyboards manufactured years ago. Once again, all other powdercoating is completely different and has no known reports of quick wear, despite the earliest of these boards (the die cast compact F62/F77) being out for four years at this point.
Just like those great tools mentioned by jesseinmx, these keyboards can be repaired and maintained even if their cosmetic appearance does not remain pristine, but it is misleading and inflammatory to state that all of these keyboards have quality failures.
There is just the reality that you are setting up a lot of varied small batch production of stuff, which means you have to design, productionise, and sort out all design quirks and bugs on a very small number of boards, leaving space for those bugs to end up not being caught. This is compared to IBM, which was an extremely wealthy company who could afford to build hundreds or thousands of prototypes for the express purpose of testing the hell out of them in the field and on rigs. There's no way for you to be that thorough at this quantity and price. A minority of people received such boards early in this project, and have been quite loud about it.
You have been entirely open about the fact that buying these boards may require a considerable amount of setup and adjustment before being put into use. If I buy a Unicomp MiniM designated for a given system type, I just pull it out of the box, click test it, reseat any keys that fail, and plug it in. If I buy your reproduction SSK, there is a long manual and an hour long setup video you expect such purchasers to go through. Its a characteristic of buying an New Model F.
Some products are for people who like getting involved with the product, and others are for people who just want to plug it in and work. I'm typing on an IBM model F122 right now, and if I want to buy one that isn't filled with 40 year old foam, 40 year old springs, 40 year old PCBs, and so on... one buys from you. Given how many people who have your product seem to absolutely love them, I'm sure they are as good as one can possibly expect it to be.
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webwit
- Wild Duck
- Location: The Netherlands
- Main keyboard: Model F62
- Favorite switch: IBM beam spring
- DT Pro Member: 0000
- Contact:
Have been using the F62 for 6 years now as a daily driver, that's longer than any keyboard I have used before. Not a dent in the fender and still running pandrew's firmware.
(Almost, chatgpt... almost)
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wobbled
- Location: USA
- Main keyboard: HHKB PD-KB300 Pro 1
- Main mouse: Logitech MX Master 3
- Favorite switch: Topre
- DT Pro Member: 0192
No one asked you webtwit
Surprised you still dare to show your face here after selling out DT to the highest bidder you prat.
Just because your board is still OK doesn’t take away from the hundreds of people that have experienced issues all stemming from joe’s shitty, or complete lack of QC
Surprised you still dare to show your face here after selling out DT to the highest bidder you prat.
Just because your board is still OK doesn’t take away from the hundreds of people that have experienced issues all stemming from joe’s shitty, or complete lack of QC
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webwit
- Wild Duck
- Location: The Netherlands
- Main keyboard: Model F62
- Favorite switch: IBM beam spring
- DT Pro Member: 0000
- Contact:
Surprised you still dare to show your face here, after sabotaging a sale back to the community by the previous owner, spearheaded by Joe, because...checks notes... you were (and still are) eternally offended by some quality issue of the paint finishing of the Model F reproduction you received.
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wobbled
- Location: USA
- Main keyboard: HHKB PD-KB300 Pro 1
- Main mouse: Logitech MX Master 3
- Favorite switch: Topre
- DT Pro Member: 0192
A sale back to the community?!?
You mean PAID FOR by the community, but ownership given solely to Joe?
Absolutely nobody wanted that… maybe read back over those old forum posts to see the outrage it caused, they’re a bit more revealing than your precious notes.
All of this could have been avoided if you weren’t a greedy little shit. YOU could have sold it back to the community instead of to some startup funded by some rich kid. You are entirely to blame.
You mean PAID FOR by the community, but ownership given solely to Joe?
Absolutely nobody wanted that… maybe read back over those old forum posts to see the outrage it caused, they’re a bit more revealing than your precious notes.
All of this could have been avoided if you weren’t a greedy little shit. YOU could have sold it back to the community instead of to some startup funded by some rich kid. You are entirely to blame.
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Green Maned Lion
- Location: USA
- Main keyboard: Unicomp New Model M
- Main mouse: X-keys L-Track
- Favorite switch: Buckling Spring
Yay, forum drama.
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DiscoMike
- Location: New York
- Main keyboard: Model M + Model F 104
- Main mouse: Logitech MX Master 2
- Favorite switch: Buckling Spring
Well I've had my IBM Model M for 25 years and it is still kicking. OOOPS - I mean 26 years. It may be a lexmark as it has the PS/2 barrel with the black IBM Logo.
For the Model F 104 Key Keyboard - I waited 13-15 months after initial purchase, and it is still kicking well for the Year + I've had it.
After taking an hour or so to set it up, I've not had any problems with it. Maybe that backspace key, but that is it - which Joe will take care of when my Beamspring Version 2 arrives. I made the purchase for that the day after I got the Model F 104 key keyboard set up, which was 14 months ago.
Now I am waiting for Joe to confirm my shipment.
They Keyboard Wars will soon start - Beamspring versus Model F. Who will win ???
Keyboard Wars
Coming this fall on ABC !!!
For the Model F 104 Key Keyboard - I waited 13-15 months after initial purchase, and it is still kicking well for the Year + I've had it.
After taking an hour or so to set it up, I've not had any problems with it. Maybe that backspace key, but that is it - which Joe will take care of when my Beamspring Version 2 arrives. I made the purchase for that the day after I got the Model F 104 key keyboard set up, which was 14 months ago.
Now I am waiting for Joe to confirm my shipment.
They Keyboard Wars will soon start - Beamspring versus Model F. Who will win ???
Keyboard Wars
Coming this fall on ABC !!!
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DiscoMike
- Location: New York
- Main keyboard: Model M + Model F 104
- Main mouse: Logitech MX Master 2
- Favorite switch: Buckling Spring
Webit ...
6 years is your longest keyboard ??? That is just a blink of an eye in terms of keyboard lifetimes.
Given that your oldest (and proudest) keyboard is just of 6 years... it begs the question - are you taking your frustrations out on your keyboards ??? Tsk Tsk Tsk !!! You need to seek keyboard therapy - Keyboards Anonymous.
Try 25 years with my IBM Model M Keyboard purchased back in Year 2000.
6 years is your longest keyboard ??? That is just a blink of an eye in terms of keyboard lifetimes.
Given that your oldest (and proudest) keyboard is just of 6 years... it begs the question - are you taking your frustrations out on your keyboards ??? Tsk Tsk Tsk !!! You need to seek keyboard therapy - Keyboards Anonymous.
Try 25 years with my IBM Model M Keyboard purchased back in Year 2000.