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Love the clacky keyboards. Right now I'm typing on a Unicomp "New M" https://www.pckeyboard.com/page/product/NEW_M

They are manufactured by the same company that made the original for IBM (in Tennessee, USA).

It's ridiculous how they don't position the Alt and Win keys properly. That's the only thing holding me from buying one.

You can configure it to be a 103 key with long space bar (it's under chassis style). That's more or less a normal layout, I think.

Same here. I have an older Unicomp that I would like to replace, but I haven't done it for exactly this reason.

Also typing on a "New M"!

I was worried as many reviewers claimed they were slightly worse than real Model Ms but I have to say, I think they got everything down. (I've used an SSK and Lexmark Model M for reference.)

Hasn't the tooling at the factory worn down to the point where you can't get but crap build quality on those Unicomps? Or have they updated the tooling?

They updated the tooling in 2020 for the "new M" keyboards. One in the classic layout and one modeled after the original space saver keyboard (which Unicomp never had the tooling for).

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