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 Message 527 
 Dave Drum to Sean Dennis 
 IBM PS/2 
 01 May 19 06:54:00 
 
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-=> Sean Dennis wrote to Dave Drum <=-

 DD> AFAIK the Model M keyboard is still produced in Lexington, KY - more-
 DD> or-less just down the street from the (former?) IBM R&D facility.

 SD> It is.  The company I mentioned is Unicomp at pckeyboard.com -- you can
 SD> still buy brand new Model Ms in spirit.

IIRC Unicomp is the result of a group of Lexmark suits buying Itty Bitty 
Machine Co's licence, design and production facilities rather than see
production end in favour of the cheaper (in every sense) cheesy Chinese 
rubber-dome (squishy) examples that the bean counters were dictating.

Back in the mid-1990s if memory serves.


... Had a job as a lumberjack. Couldn't hack it. Got the axe.
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