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 ...

An IBM Model M keyboard under a 1987 terminal. - Bettmann/Getty Images Back in the early 1980s, before home computing became anywhere near as common and accessible as it has in the 2020s, various ...

Yes, this is about a Model M's death, now that I've totally dismounted an IBM model M (including the contacts films), I wanted to let you know that it's certainly not the best keyboard ever made. I ...

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 ...

Then I got a "silent" lookalike to the Model M, identical to it apart from the switches. It felt horrible and the landing pad of the fingers on the keys felt very small and cramped, and I kept hitting ...

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 ...