Colemak mechanical keyboard?

[webwit]

From http://forum.colemak.com/viewtopic.php?id=1155

My name is Erika Sato and I work for a Japanese keyboard company, we manufacture high quality mechanical Keyboards in Taiwan.

Recently we have noticed a growing interest in the Colemak layout and we would like to find out if there is enough demand for us to make a batch of Colemak keyboard available in either Cherry mx Blue or Brown switches.

Yes, mechanical keyboards are more expensive, but we believe most of the Colemak users have invested significant time learning the layout, it would logical to invest in a properly made mechanical keyboard. Therefore, at this point, we are not considering robber dome membrane keyboard or scissor switch keyboard, as most of them have identical keycap profile on every row, users can simply switch keys with relative ease.

If the feedback is good and the demand is strong, we may produce a batch of true hardware colemak keyboard, meaning your colemak will stay as a colemak even under DOS.

I am in the process of making a more thorough survey on survey monkey; in the meaning time, please tell me what you think.

Indeed, the more feedback I can get from you the better the chance this project will get a go ahead.

[Ascaii]

I find the idea of using a dip switch controlled layer control interesting. The best would be if they could implement a 4 slot dip switch save...qwerty, dvorak, colemak, and a freely programmable layer.

[Input Nirvana]

Very cool. There used to be a website for a hardware Dvorak (http://dvorak-keyboard.net63.net/) but it died in the last few months. Wish I had copied it. I wanted to make a hardware Colemak to put into a Kinesis Contoured that is used at different computers.

[cactux]

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[Daemon Raccoon]

Since the Dvorak, and Collemac support is built in most of the latest OS. Is hard to justify a native Dvorak or Collemac keyboard. Maybe the only reason why this can be justified is if we use the same board in diferent workstations (tech support, administrator, etc).If this new features does not impact the final price I am on it.

BTW I am use Dvorak as my main layout

The only operating systems with Collemac [sic] are the BSDs, Mac OS X (starting with Lion) and Linux; Windows requires installing the layout. Unless something has changed Windows still has 90%+ of the market.

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[Input Nirvana]

I use a Kinesis Contoured on Mac OSX Snow Leopard. I have the Colemak layout in OSX from the Colemak website. Is there any reason why I would want to remap the Colemak layout on the Kinesis (the Kinesis is fully remappable) instead of using the layout in OSX?