The Buckling Spring keyboard is one of the first keyboards ever released. In fact, it’s responsible for the layout of the modern keyboards we use today. But there are a lot of different opinions about ...
IBM’s Model F keyboards are prized among keyboard enthusiasts. Introducing buckling spring switches over a capacitive printed circuit board (PCB) in the early 80s, they’re considered the grandfather ...
The Model F Ultra Compact is a hardcore buckling spring keyboard for nostalgic enthusiasts. Modern mechanical keyboards hold endless possibilities in design and function, yet one experience remains ...
8BitDo is releasing an IBM-inspired look for its $100 wireless mechanical keyboard. Keyboard enthusiasts love regaling normies with tales of IBM’s buckling spring keyboards and the precedent they set ...
You may not know the Model F by name, but you know it by sound—the musical thwacking of flippers slapping away. The sound of the '80s office. The IBM Model F greeted the world in 1981 with a good ten ...
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The keyboard that all other keyboards copied turns 40 this year: here's how the IBM Model M's legacy lives on today
The keyboard that gave us the standardised layout on both sides of the Atlantic, with its quintessential 100% form factor and classic buckling spring mechanical keys (in most instances), is about to ...
Mechanical keyboards are wildly popular among computing enthusiasts and gamers currently. However, hardcore and old school geeks alike will argue that the venerable IBM Model F, circa 1981 and ...
Even having grown up using Commodore 64s, Apple IIs, and IBM PCs, I have no fondness for mechanical keyboards. I’m most happy with a set of short-travel, chiclet-style laptop keys under my fingers, ...
For the last few decades, the computer keyboard has been seen as just another peripheral. There’s no need to buy a quality keyboard, conventional wisdom goes, because there’s no real difference ...
A physical keyboard that uses an individual spring and switch for each key. Today, only premium keyboards are built with key switches; however, they were also used in the past, such as in the Model M ...
There’s a mystique in old keyboard circles around the IBM Model M, the granddaddy of PC keyboards with those famous buckling spring key switches. The original Model M was a substantial affair with a ...
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