Decided to give the nice, big Unicomp keyboard (an IBM Model M in all but name -- and maybe that as well, since the bottom is still marked "MODEL M" from the mold) a try, after a disassembly and cleaning so thorough that I wasn't entirely sure it would still work after I got it back together.
It does. I'm using it.
There's a little bit of desk-cleaning yet to do, and I don't have the computer back in the usual location, but when it's done (or sufficiently cleared -- an open workspace is a process, not an end-state), I'll take a picture to share. I'm unlikely to ever achieve 5S levels of orderliness but it's better to make the attempt than to wallow in bad habits.
I have a Unicomp Model M. I really like it. It was money well spent.
ReplyDeleteInteresting. If it were available as a wireless, I'd be even more interested.
ReplyDeleteYe Olde M.... a worthy beast. Worth every penny if you can find one.
ReplyDeleteCarteach: you can. Unicomp still makes 'em.
ReplyDeleteI have worked using 5S programs before. They are perfectly sound management tools. However, the two places that I worked for both didn't really want to use 5S, they only did it to satisfy corporate. So it was mostly a joke to the workers. Instead of being a lean way of doing business, based upon continual improvement, for them, it was mostly a matter of making sure that you swept the floors, and only had the actual tool on hand that you were using at the time. I came up with many different slogans for the 5S words that were appropriate, but stupid supervisors securing senior status is always a good one. Most of them were not as polite, and included more off color words. Toyota was the originator of the idea, I believe, and by getting everyone to buy into it, from the top to the bottom, it works very well.
ReplyDelete5S would be just about impossible in most of my workplace and extremely difficult in my department. Still, it's a nice goal even if you never get there.
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