I bought a P/N KB8923 FRU P/N76H0896 built 09/1996 keyboard for $0.25. I always hear you guys talking about the IBM's and how great they are. This keyboard is like new there is no dirt or grime on it ...

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 ...

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 ...

The second coming of IBM's Model F keyboard is upon us. A new project is bringing four new mechanical keyboards featuring the buckling spring switch. The switch debuted with the Model F in 1981. IBM's ...

I've got one of the old IBM buckled spring keyboards here and was wondering if there was any way I could get it to work with my mac. It is one of the older model Ms with the huge connector plug.

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 ...

The pen is mightier than the sword, but the IBM Model M keyboard, properly applied, can knock teeth in. There are a few more IBM keyboards even better suited to blunt force trauma – the extremely ...

An IBM patent points to an on-screen keyboard that matches the user’s anatomy, changing to reflect each users “unique typing motion.” The keyboard requires calibration in the form of various exercises ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Technology journalist specializing in audio, computing and Apple Macs. Are you old enough to remember the sort of keyboard that ...

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 ...