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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 ...
Look closely at this beauty. No, that’s not a chopped IBM Model M or anything — it’s a custom 40% capacitive buckling spring keyboard with an ortholinear layout made by [durken]. Makes it easy to ...
In brief: Mechanical keyboard manufacturers have spent years trying to recapture the feel and sound of classic keyboards like IBM's iconic Model M. In 2017, a revival project reproduced the Model M's ...
I’m an old school typist having learned on a mechanical typewriter. It would be many years before I owned a computer. My first real computer was an IBM XT which had the well-known 101 key mechanical ...
I do like the Model M, but I think the NKP is even better. I don't think there has ever been a better all around keyboard. I think there's too much of a focus with modern keyboards on building ...
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, ...
You have to be able to put your fingers on the keys without activation, so you know where the keys are. So there has to be minimum threshold. I did some quick testing, and it seems like the Model M ...
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