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 ...

Love those clickey keys. The father of my high school best friend worked on the team that designed IBM keyboards. Talk around the dinner table was about how hard it was to design keyboards for Asian ...

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.

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 ...

I have two Model Ms. A standard, and a black M13 (the one with Trackpoint). I've never had a problem with noise any place I worked; I've found longtime cubicle-dwellers have excellent tune-out ...

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 ...

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 ...

It's not hard these days to get your hands on a mechanical keyboard that lights up like a Christmas tree. Gaming keyboards have added a ton of new features over the years and come with a huge variety ...