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

You may not know the Model F by name, but you know it by sound—the musical thwacking of flippers slapping away. The sound of the '80s office. The IBM Model F greeted the world in 1981 with a good ten ...

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 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 ...

If you had looked around any office in the 1980’s which had a computer (there wasn’t that many) you would have almost certainly have seen an IBM Model F keyboard. They were so popular in fact that the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Only a well-trained ear might be able to hear the difference between a generic keyboard and the IBM Model F keyboard that was popular in the 1980s. The Model F is considered by many people to be the ...

Even having grown up using Commodore 64s, Apple IIs, and IBM PCs, I have no fondness for mechanical keyboards. I’m most happy with a set of short-travel, chiclet-style laptop keys under my fingers, ...

Want to recreate the feel (and deafening sound) of 1980's computing? Pick up an identical copy of an IBM Model F keyboard for around $350. I’m a managing editor at PCMag.com focused on PC hardware.