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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Model F Ultra Compact is a hardcore buckling spring keyboard for nostalgic enthusiasts. For fans of the classic IBM keyboard, it's like reuniting with an old friend.

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 ...

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 ...

IBM's popular Model F keyboard is making a brief comeback after 30 years of being off the market, and it can be ordered for $325.

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 ...