Sometime around 2012, on a few of the Internet’s largest mechanical keyboard communities, news of a strange IBM keyboard made the rounds. It was small, with just 62 keys, made out of metal ...

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If the machine gun fire of a buckling spring keyboard isn’t enough for you, there’s only one solution: [Russell]’s typewriter turned into a mechanical ... a number of IBM Selectrics ...

such as in the Model M keyboard from IBM, which used buckling spring switches. Mechanical keyboards are very much appreciated by fast typists because they have a springiness and feel that is not ...

IBM's standalone Model M keyboard is widely regarded as the keyboard that made mechanical switches viable. While earlier computers had integrated keyboards, the device slowly became an accessory ...