With older keyboards such as the IBM Model M the limitation is simply that a keyboard matrix, without any additional measures, can only guarantee 2KRO. A third key on the same row or same column ...

It should be noted that nice mechanical keyboards are anything but cheap (after all, we're talking a lot more moving parts than a standard clacker). The Matias model I got runs about $200, which ...

Unicomp’s New Model M is a $104 mechanical keyboard with a design that dates back to IBM’s legendary Model M. Its buckling spring key switches feel amazing to type on, but their stiffness and ...

Instead, it's the longtime work of a historian in love with the retro keyboard's unparalleled sound and feel, but frustrated by the limitations of actual decades-old tech. The Model F Keyboards ...

The Lowfree Flow84 is the latest episode in my on-again, off-again love affair with mechanical keyboards. I describe it ...

Heh, how curious! I’m currently restoring my old Amiga 1200 and wondered about a mechanical keyboard. I got stuck at how I’d best “interface” the original keycaps to MX switches.

Few things in the computing world are as viscerally satisfying as typing on an old-school mechanical keyboard. That signature click-clack—probably louder than it should be in polite office ...

That said, I still have a handful of my older peripherals and devices that I use to this day. Most of them are part of my main PC setup, while some make themselves useful occasionally. From my ...

But IBM’s ’80s keyboard didn’t use modern mechanical switches. It used buckling springs over a membrane sheet that made keys feel heavier to push than the keys on the preceding Model F ...

There are a few things about the New Model M that are inferior to the old Model Ms I used in high school. There is a slight creak when I squeeze either side of the keyboard. The original Model Ms were ...

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.

IBM’s Model 5150 PC, released in 1981, was a classic, perhaps the computer most responsible for launching the PC revolution. (In fact, it’s one of our 25 Greatest PCs of All Time.) Sadly ...