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by hakfoo 1120 days ago
The Unicomp phenomenon was that IBM literally spun off their keyboards along with the printer stuff to Lexmark. Lexmark, in turn, begat Unicomp because they'd rather sell fiddly terrible $19 inkjet printers.

It does seem like it's getting harder to find a "tasteful" mouse at retail. I bought the new Intellimouse Pro for my work space a few years ago, but now the office supply chain basically only has Logitech products, and if you don't want them, you can go to Best Buy and spend $80 on something gamery that looks like Optimus Prime's RGB marital aid.

I could probably find something online, but peripherals are very much a comfort and feel angle where in-person experience helps.