I have a keyboard from the late 1980's or very early 90's that I'd like to use with my Mini. It was brand new-never opened and looks like an IBM Model M. It has the huge connector, not the purple or ...

Melissa Block and Robert Siegel read from listeners' comments on stories about the IBM Model M keyboard and the World Team Handball Championships. Quite a few of you, it turns out, are nostalgic about ...

Almost all keyboards made since the early 1990s are, frankly, no good. A tiny group of writers and hackers know better. They use vintage IBM keyboards. Ugly, built like tanks, and, most importantly, ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. In 1984 IBM introduced the legendary Model M, a beast of a mechanical keyboard that utilized a unique buckling spring key switch to make sweet love to ...

For decades a thunderous roar rose from the bowels of IBM keyboards like the animus of angry and forgotten gods. These keyboards have fallen silent of late, due only to incompatibility with newer ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 the deputy managing editor of the hardware team at ...

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.