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The leetsauce 60% comment twas just a joke. Def don't sacrifice what is functional to you for a tiny keyboard lol.
There are some mods/hacks that people have done that add the Thinkpad red nipple to boards and not gonna lie but I think that shit is super dope. It's up there with some of the touchpad builds out there
Oh ok c:
There were/are also IBM and Unicomp Model Ms with the lil red nipple which were/are super dope. Dream item, expemsive shit tho...
Maybe I'm not as knowledgeable as I claim. I looked up Unicomp and have seen them in passing but thought they were retro Cherry boards because of the black chassis. Had no idea they are still making keyboards with pointers outside of Thinkpads and the hobbyspace.
Catastrophic buckling spring switches
Unicomp bought the original blueprints and such, pretty rad.
I was wondering if that was a thing. I know buckling springs are super hard to come by which is part of the appeal of the Model M, but yeah, no shit, that's cool as fuck.