The Model M started out as a replacement for IBM's Model F keyboard that was previously bundled with its terminals. That became too expensive to produce, so IBM looked to replace ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cruising the ibm web site I found out that IBM has taken the thinkpad keyboard with ultranav and put it in a desktop USB keyboard. Description seems to say it only works with IBM products. Might get ...

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 ...

Yes, this is crazy. I have a wonderful, heavy, clunky, clacking IBM buckled-spring keyboard (PS/2) that I want to run off Bluetooth. Nobody on the entire internet seems to have done this.<BR><BR>One ...

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, ...

Want to recreate the feel (and deafening sound) of 1980's computing? Pick up an identical copy of an IBM Model F keyboard for around $350. I’m the deputy managing editor of the hardware team at ...

Ten years ago I put my first PC, an IBM XT-286 into the closet and forgot about it. I was on to 386s and 486s and Mac Power PCs. But I always missed typing on my original IBM 101-key keyboard. To this ...

For some people, a keyboard is a keyboard is a keyboard. If the keys don’t stick and the right letters appear on the screen when the keys are pressed, then any keyboard is as good as another. That ...

So this will probably only interest me, but one of my favorite tech writers, Dan from Dan’s Data, has written a comprehensive overview of one of my all-time favorite products, the IBM “Clickety ...

Only a well-trained ear might be able to hear the difference between a generic keyboard and the IBM Model F keyboard that was popular in the 1980s. The Model F is considered by many people to be the ...