In 1984 IBM introduced the legendary Model M, a beast of a mechanical keyboard that utilized a unique buckling spring key switch to make sweet love to the user's fingers, along with a lot of noise.

In 1984 IBM introduced the legendary Model M, a beast of a mechanical keyboard that utilized a unique buckling spring key switch to make sweet love to the user’s fingers, along with a lot of noise.

The lack of options for buckling spring keyboards has lead to some stupidly high priced ones; nice to see a reasonably priced one available, with USB none the less! Nice find. FWIW, for those not ...

[Steve M. Potter] loves and respects a good, solid keyboard as much as we do and wanted to build an heirloom-level battleship to grace their home office. Well, you couldn’t ask for a better donor keeb ...

1984 was a landmark year in computing. It was the debut year of the Macintosh, of course, but it also spawned another piece of timeless computer hardware: the IBM Model M keyboard, which Matt Neuburg ...

[Steve M. Potter] loves and respects a good, solid keyboard as much as we do and wanted to build an heirloom-level battleship to grace their home office. Well, you couldn’t ask for a better donor keeb ...

Almost all keyboards made since the early 1990s are, frankly, no good. A tiny group of writers and hackers know better. They use vintage IBM keyboards. Ugly, built like tanks, and, most importantly, ...

I'm a bit surprised there no talk about the thickness of the various keyboards. That's the main reason I use a membrane/chiclet keyboard - because it's so thin. The older style mechanical keyboards ...

Few tech products can truly be called legendary, but the original IBM Model M keyboard unquestionably qualifies. Developed and released in 1985, it's been held up by many (including yours truly) as ...

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