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Many folks miss them.
They dislike today's cheaply-made, mushy keyboards with inferior tactile feel, and little audible feedback.
Originals had that satisfying click and tactile feel, which was painstakingly designed to emulate the experience of typing on an IBM Selectric, the typewriter with that ball of letters that moved fast.
The original IBM PC keyboards model F was made to last decades, not years.
It was solid and contained five pounds of metal.
IBM stopped making them, but keyboard aficionados today hunt for the vintage ones to restore them.
Now they're back, sort of ... if you can afford one ... not from IBM, but from these folks:
They dislike today's cheaply-made, mushy keyboards with inferior tactile feel, and little audible feedback.
Originals had that satisfying click and tactile feel, which was painstakingly designed to emulate the experience of typing on an IBM Selectric, the typewriter with that ball of letters that moved fast.
The original IBM PC keyboards model F was made to last decades, not years.
It was solid and contained five pounds of metal.
IBM stopped making them, but keyboard aficionados today hunt for the vintage ones to restore them.
Now they're back, sort of ... if you can afford one ... not from IBM, but from these folks:
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