🚀 go-pugleaf

On Fri, 1 Jan 1999 02:37:53, bobb@nospam.net (Bob Beaver) wrote:

> In article <368ad909.0@news3.ibm.net>, "J. Clarke" <nospam@nospam.nospam> 
> wrote:
> >I'm kicking myself.  One of the local stores had dozens of the good IBM
> >keyboards, not only that, they were _black_ keyboards, for $25 a pop.
> >Should have gotten a few.  Next time I went in, they were all gone.
> 
> I tried those.  They were not as good as the older designs.  More mushy feel.  
> Not all IBM keyboards are created equal.  The best keyboard I find for less 
> than $50 is the KeyTronic Lifetime series.  Not as clicky as the old IBM's but 
> for less than $30 they are pretty hard to beat.

The IBM keyboards come in two flavors.  The older (like the Model
M) keyboards have a so-called "buckeling spring" technology.  If 
you pry a key-cap off (not the spacebar please) you'll see a 
little spring sticking up.  When you push down on the spring it 
bucles and gives the tactile feedback as well as the click.  The 
newer ones (though I believe buckeling spring keyboards are still
being made in the UK) use rubber domes.  They're mushier but 
nicer than most keyboards.

The buckeling spring keyboards do last a while.  This one has a 
Sept. 89 date on it.  The one on my game machine has an August 90
date.  Both have been through several systems and upgrades.

Now if I could just fix the loose nut behind the keyboard...  ;-)

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  Keith R. Willims
  krw@ibm.net