all right some background in case you're not aware the model m typically refers to a class of keyboards from ibm that date back to the NUMBER_TOKENs technically kind of the early NUMBER_TOKENs and it's their very very NUMBER_TOKENs these keyboards held up well i mean this this keyboard is from NUMBER_TOKEN and it still holds up really well and the mechanism is a very satisfying buckling spring mechanism it's a catastrophically buckling spring but because it was designed in the NUMBER_TOKENs there are a lot of things about it that are not modern well this keyboard made in NUMBER_TOKEN by company called unicomp addresses some of those issues and there are many different variants of the model m yes there's one with the numeric keypad there's one without but this particular one has a lot of design improvements from unicomp which is really good it has improvements over the one from NUMBER_TOKEN but if you check desk authority and even our own forum at level one there are several people that have had problems with the controller that's in this you see this is the controller it's based on a cypress uh you know microcontroller it's pretty bog standard as far as usb controllers go but whenever your computer suspends or suspends resumes or if you've been using this keyboard for a prolonged period of time sometimes like the one key or the q key or escape other keys aren't picked up anymore for mysterious reasons it's not really super clear as to why that is and it's unfortunate because you know historically the model m's have been two key rollover but unicom actually saw some of the enthusiasm around the model m and especially the the ssk i mean this this was a decade in the making from unicomp it only became available in uh early NUMBER_TOKEN otherwise otherwise people were using keyboards like this one well i'm here to tell you i've got a thing and it's open source and it's a replacement controller for this and the replacement controller runs some software called quantum mechanical keyboard so if there's anything that i haven't foreseen or there's any problems with anything it's open source you can fix it you can tailor it to your specific thing and that's the kind of thing that somebody who's interested in this keyboard is also going to be interested in that's a drop in replacement what makes this keyboard unique is that they switched to a lower density matrix you see in this one you know without really getting into it there's a membrane in here and it has so many rows that's rows of keys and columns and they've arranged it a little bit so that like you know control and alt and shift don't really step on each other's toes but it doesn't really truly support in-key rollover it's technically a two-key rollover type thing in the worst case scenario if you're an insanely fast typist and your fingers linger on the keys that you've depressed a little too long it can be a little annoying if you're up around NUMBER_TOKEN words per minute give or take with the two key rollovers see the way that these keyboards work and this is true even for you know if you're going to build your own keyboard because if you look at qmk there's like hand wired
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