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 ...

Mechanical keyboards are wildly popular among computing enthusiasts and gamers currently. However, hardcore and old school geeks alike will argue that the venerable IBM Model F, circa 1981 and ...

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 ...

IBM’s Model F keyboards are prized among keyboard enthusiasts. Introducing buckling spring switches over a capacitive printed circuit board (PCB) in the early 80s, they’re considered the grandfather ...

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 ...

Remember the good old 1980’s? The days of the IBM Personal System/2 PC when a 20MHz CPU, 2MB of RAM, and a 100MB HDD cost you $10,000? Or the first time you laid hands on the sweet, sweet Model F ...

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 ...

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, ...

For the last few decades, the computer keyboard has been seen as just another peripheral. There’s no need to buy a quality keyboard, conventional wisdom goes, because there’s no real difference ...

The Model F Ultra Compact is a hardcore buckling spring keyboard for nostalgic enthusiasts. Modern mechanical keyboards hold endless possibilities in design and function, yet one experience remains ...

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.