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This project grew out of the goal to make the perfect keyboard for myself. I already had the Filco Minila which I liked a lot. It has a bunch of switches at the bottom to rearrange some of the keys about. I had it configured to resemble a Sun Type 3 or Happy Hacker keyboard as much as it would allow. However there were some things that I thought could be improved so I decided to hack.

I wanted to fix the function layer. Both Filco and Happy Hacker have completely disregarded the old Unix shortcuts when they positioned the keys on the Fn layer. There is a long tradition of Ctrl-A being Home and Ctrl-E being End. Also Ctrl-D for PgDn and Ctrl-U for PgUp. To me, it seams so obvious and ridiculous to make up entirely new combinations. I wanted to fix all the quirks and make a real, proper hacker keyboard for Unix-like systems.