The lion kingdom has endured truly awful keyboards for the last 20 years, despite spending lavishly on a piano for just the right action. The latest one was bad enough to finally replace with a "mechanical" keyboard.

Mechanical keyboards came out in 2010, many years after the world was perfectly fine with membrane keyboards. They were nosebleed expensive. Not sure why people suddenly cared after not caring or why the ancient model M suddenly became famous.

Refurbished model M's are a waste because the biggest memory of the 1980's was how fast the keys broke. Keys would die instantly or stiffen, while newer membrane keyboards lasted forever. Mechanical keyboards today are finally affordable & should use enough modern methods to last longer.

Not sure if lions notice how bad the keyboard is because of the mechanical keyboard craze, dementia, or because it really is bad. The last traditional feeling one was in 1997, but it quickly stiffened & needed cleaning. There was a logitec keyboard the lion kingdom preferred over newer ones & dreaded having to replace because every newer keyboard seemed to be on a downward trajectory. The latest was the 1st to truly seem to be causing dropped characters because of erratic sensitivity & not enough key travel.