Clicky keyboards?

r.

Try these guys:

Do these "buckling spring" keyboards have a tactile "give" when they click ? I really miss the keyboard I had in the 1980s that had that feel. It took me quite a while to get used to a laptop keyboard and I like my Macbook pro keyboard OK, but I'd like to try getting a keyboard like I used to have with the old PC (maybe it was IBM PC ?) many years ago. Yeah, I seem to remember the old IBM PC having somewhat of that tactile feel as well... The audible click was just because of the spring I think. Tha name "buckling spring" sure sounds like what I am thinking of...

boB

(Washington, AC)

Yes, these were used by IBM in the "Model-M" keyboards in the PS/2s. This keyboard is a Unicomp (A.K.A. pckeyboard.com) and is just like a PS/2 keyboard, except that it's USB. I want a couple more.

Thanks. That wasn't coming up a couple of days ago.

They were called Unicomp for awhile--are they gone too?

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

FWIW, I used to buy Belkins at five bucks a pop, but they seem to have gone by the wayside...

In the mid-1980's, I wrote a DOS TSR to make a click on key closure because of those stupid silent keyboards.

Good Luck! Rich

I need the feel more than the sound.

Unicomp is pckeyboard.com

It was "pckeyboard.com" I believe... no "s" on the end?

They're now selling via

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Yes, they do indeed, and that's why I like them so much. I grew up in an era of crunchy electromechanical keyboards (Teletype ASR-33, etc.) and I've never really gotten used to the modern low-tactile-feedback Hall-switch keys.

Bingo.

Unicomp bought up the rights to the IBM buckling-spring keyboard design, and the Unicomp keyboard sold under the "pckeyboard.com" name do have the same crunchy feel.

I have an original IBM Model M "mini" keyboard here at work, as well as a Unicomp I bought about five years ago. Everybody in the nearby cubes can tell when I'm working, from the key-clacking :-)

The Unicomp folks are actually the same outfit that used to be IBM Lexington. IIRC there was an employee buyout to prevent them closing the doors.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Yes, I know. There was a problem getting to their site for a while. It's cleared up now.

Cyber Monday server overload problems?