If you love Sun keyboards AND want a compact keyboard, try and find a Sun Voyager keyboard. It's a Sun keyboard, but without the (pointless) numeric keypad on the right. When I worked at Sun I managed to source a couple and still have one in my "I might need that again" bin of parts.
Like the author of the article, I like the Happy Hacker keyboard. It's compact, well built, the control key is in the correct place, has well placed arrow keys, and isn't overly expensive. I have (I hope) a lifetime supply of them. So long as I can get ps2 adaptors for whatever comes after USB.
Thanks for the heads up! I'll keep an eye out to see if any come up cheap. As I mentioned I did try to keep using Type 6s but they would usually fail after a year of use or so. I punted and bought a buckling spring keyboard although it's been sitting in a closet because I didn't want to be that guy and be the only one with a clacky clacky keyboard. Now that several of my employees brought in mechanical keyboards of their own volition I feel like I have license to do the same.
The type 6s are soft without feeling like you're typing on a marshmallow. Would love another if I could actually keep one alive.
I didn't find any on ebay, but I did find a whole Sun Voyager system https://www.ebay.com/itm/WORKING-Rare-SUN-Voyager-SPARCstati... $700 just to get a keyboard is kinda pricy.
Like the author of the article, I like the Happy Hacker keyboard. It's compact, well built, the control key is in the correct place, has well placed arrow keys, and isn't overly expensive. I have (I hope) a lifetime supply of them. So long as I can get ps2 adaptors for whatever comes after USB.