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IBM Model M Soft Touch - Ebay
dbg32:
Saw this soft touch IBM (8184692) listed on ebay this morning. Incomplete board but it's rarity makes it postworthy. I personally use one at the office and love it.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/IBM-Model-M-Soft-Touch-Clicky-Keyboard-8184692-no-cord-missing-keycaps/303493222665?hash=item46a99b1109:g:oioAAOSwsnVeTW7V
biothermal:
--- Quote from: dbg32 on Thu, 20 February 2020, 07:55:14 ---Saw this soft touch IBM (8184692) listed on ebay this morning. Incomplete board but it's rarity makes it postworthy. I personally use one at the office and love it.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/IBM-Model-M-Soft-Touch-Clicky-Keyboard-8184692-no-cord-missing-keycaps/303493222665?hash=item46a99b1109:g:oioAAOSwsnVeTW7V
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Bit of a tangent but... Based on what I know of how a "soft touch" model works, is there any reason you can't get the same feeling/noise level out of a normal model M?
Just wondering if there are any functional differences besides the grease that make the board desirable, besides the "soft touch" label on the badge.
dbg32:
Not sure if you could recreate the feel and sound with a normal model m. It's something that usually comes up whenever the soft touch is talked about. The soft touch definitely has a different feel than a typical model m. Hard to describe but typing with a model m feels smoother. When the spring buckles, the grease takes some of the energy so its not as violent of a 'snap'. This results in the keypresses feeling smoother, while still retaining the satisfying snap of the spring buckling, just not as prominent. At least for my board, many of the keys feel slightly different from one another and have different sound profiles as well.
dbg32:
Yeah the biggest feature of this board is that it's not as noisy as a typical model m, trading off a slightly watered down buckling spring feel.
JP:
I assumed this was the rubber dome Model M so I guess there are still more things left out there to discover.
[Sold] At this time there is one available for $75 shipping. As a bonus this model has the internal speaker :thumb:
https://www.redmarket.store/shop
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