I use a CDTV keyboard with my AmigaOne, so I can have the real Amiga keyboard experience, but in black to match the case of the computer. Recently, the left shift key started wearing out, and I would have to press it quite hard for it to register.

This made programming quite frustrating. After popping off the key cap, I found that pushing a bit of wire into the hole reliably completed the circuit for the shift key. So, I cut off the leg of a spare capacitor I had lying around, folded...

I got myself an UNICOMP Customizer Keyboard. I have an old IBM-Model M that my wife gave me as a birthday present some years ago. And while I liked the thing almost as much, the crappy PS2/USB-converter and the missing "Windows"-Keyes made it troublesome to use. The Customizer is shiny and new and a whole modern yet traditional keyboard.

Fittingly I changed my design in Google Mail to this:
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So there it is - pure BBS goodess paired...

I recently read on Twitter that there is at least one other person in the town where I work, who also happens to have a (brand new) Samantha. I didn´t expect it. Maybe we will meet and exchange experience.

At the moment I am happily typing all this with my "Frankenstein"-keyboard. Made from the keys of a grey Cherry and a black "Das Keyboard" (1st ed.). I have really grown to like it, even though I recently found out that you can buy IBM-Model-M clones with a similiar...