Yesterday I decided that my heavily-used clicky mechanical keyboard (a Das Keyboard 4) had accumulated far too much grime, and it was time to take the risk of cleaning it.
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So I feel very sad. I thought I had broken my keyboard jinx. But it’s currently zero for three.
I have some other keyboards, of course, including a colourful oddity I bought from Dick Smith (whose layout leaves out the right-hand super/windows key), and a Kensington “washable” (dare I risk it?), with the pipe/backslash key in a different position. But I had grown accustomed to the volume control knob and other niceties of the Das Keyboard.
Looking back through my records, I was surprised to discover I had bought it about ten years ago, from Mighty Ape. So I suppose it’s had a good run. But it seems nobody in NZ sells the things any more.
So currently I mourn, and I also look for alternatives ...
I feel the pain! I'm dreading the day that my MS Comfort Curve 2000 is doing its final keystroke, since they haven't been produced for a number of years now. Haven't really come across a nice and affordable alternative to it yet... Cheers, Peter