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by al_borland 854 days ago
How long ago were the issues? A co-worker of mine bought one many years ago (10-12 if I had to guess). It was pretty bad. He spent a bunch of time filing down all the bits of extra plastic from the manufacturing process. I had seen better finishing on keyboard costing a fraction of the price. Not that Unicomp has the highest prices in the market, far from it, but it’s not a $10 OEM board either.

I had wanted to buy one, but seeing his always made me think twice, so never did.

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The unicomp Model M I got 15 years or so ago was an absolute dog that felt like a wish.com version of the venerable Model M. It had constant problems and I ended up releasing it into the general computer lab to be destroyed by postdocs.
I bought mine around 2017.