If you like mechanical keyboards, you like switches. Historically, switches were weird, with strange capacitive rubber dome switches in Topre boards, buckling springs in the IBM Model M ...

Today, only premium keyboards are built with key switches; however, they were also used in the past, such as in the Model M keyboard from IBM, which used buckling spring switches. Mechanical ...

It was small, with just 62 keys, made out of metal, and used the buckling spring key switches of the Model F. It was the IBM 4704, Part Number 6019284. This keyboard was re-discovered by a forum ...

As mentioned, the main appeal of scissor switches is that you can make really thin, low-profile keyboards. Mechanical keyboards like the original IBM Model F and Model M weren't really practical ...

Even though the IBM Model M not a "real" mechanical ... The keyboard feels like your regular run-of-the-mill gaming keyboard with Kailh mechanical switches. There's nothing wrong with just being ...