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Buckling Spring Keyboards

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You all know about our affinity for IBM clicky keyboards. Well, there’s one man who has an even bigger affinity—nay, obsession—with these noisy beasts.

Well, here’s a buyer’s guide to purchasing sebum-encrusted, used IBM keyboards as well as a field guide to the different types (Type M13 with the little nubbin, Type M5-1 with a trackball, etc.). And he has an audio file of him clacking away like a madman and uses the term “board chow” which I believe are two of the most beautiful words in the English language.

IBM Keyboards – The Odyssey Continues [DansData]

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