Back in 2008, my Dell Quiet Key (from 1999) broke after I spilled orange juice on it. I wanted to get a Unicomp Model M keyboard but couldn't order one directly from Unicomp (they needed a credit card and I don't have one). So I had a look round ebay, and there was someone in the US selling some brand new boxed Unicomp Model M 102 key keyboards, which were manufactured in 2006, but had a German layout. So I got one. I think it cost about 50 pound inc postage.

Being familiar with German keyboards and knowing the layout of an English keyboard it didn't really make any difference to me. The key caps on these boards can simply be popped off and changed, but as I don't have a full English set, I just drew on symbols such as &"()+=@ etc in pencil.

I've used it just about every day since late 2008. Who cares if my bottom left hand key says Strg instead of Ctrl? They do exactly the same thing.

Only problem at the moment, is that on my Linux system, I managed to change the keyboard layout from UK to US and am struggling to change it back.