For the past few weeks, a name has been circulating quietly in vintage keyboard forums and obscure mechanical keyboard Discords:
The Remington Gail never officially launched. According to a former Remington contractor who posts under the handle /u/typewriter_ghost , the Gail was killed just six weeks before its announced debut at CES 1990. remington gail keyboard
The idea was ergonomic before ergonomics was cool. Your fingers wouldn't travel up to the number row; they would slide forward along a gentle slope. For the past few weeks, a name has
There are legends in the typing world. The IBM Model M. The Apple Extended Keyboard. The HHKB. Your fingers wouldn't travel up to the number
Disclaimer: The Remington Gail is presented here as a work of speculative fiction/urban legend. There is no known commercial keyboard produced by Remington under that name. If you actually find one, call a museum immediately.
Enter the "Gail." Named either after a lead engineer’s daughter or a long-forgotten code name for "gentle actuation, improved layout" (the lore is split), the Gail was supposed to be Remington’s final stand.