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Mike Lockhart • Edited

That's my old reliable standby which I let the kids use on the home PC. (I use a re-arranged Sun Type 6 myself, for it's Unix nostalgia).

The Dell takes a beating well, keys aren't too bad for a rubber-dome, media keys are handy. I leave this one in QWERTY too.

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Thomas H Jones II

Euw... Type 6.

The Sun4 keyboard (the one that shipped with the SPARCStation 2) was the best keyboard Sun ever put out. Throughout the 90s, I dragged one with me from job to job.

SGI's US-101 that came with the Indigo22 Impact series was pretty decent too.

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Mike Lockhart

I agree, the Type 4 was a pretty nice keyboard. I can't find one that's also USB though, and my Type 6 was a dumpster refugee.

I'd chose an IBM Model M remake over the SGI.

The new Kinesis Freestyle would be a good, ergo facsimile of the Sun layout, if you add a number pad.