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IBM Space Saving Keyboard "SSK" Model M review (IBM buckling spring)
« on: Sat, 13 July 2019, 06:47:08 »
Finally I get to show you an SSK! IBM probably never thought that these would become so popular decades later xD . Hope you enjoy the video! :)

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Re: IBM Space Saving Keyboard "SSK" Model M review (IBM buckling spring)
« Reply #1 on: Sat, 13 July 2019, 07:23:38 »
And.... now i regret selling mine.
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Re: IBM Space Saving Keyboard "SSK" Model M review (IBM buckling spring)
« Reply #2 on: Thu, 18 July 2019, 23:30:45 »
I sold mine some time back as I realized I just typed way slower with buckling springs and just way too loud for me. Must be cause I am a millennial but are these still as popular as they were  a few years ago? There was a time where everyone seemed to be trying to get one
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Re: IBM Space Saving Keyboard "SSK" Model M review (IBM buckling spring)
« Reply #3 on: Fri, 19 July 2019, 12:27:52 »
Another fantastic vid, thanks!
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Re: IBM Space Saving Keyboard "SSK" Model M review (IBM buckling spring)
« Reply #4 on: Sun, 21 July 2019, 22:11:16 »
Great review, as usual :)

Coincidentally I pulled one of mine out on the weekend.  Great to use.

Mine both cost around $200, one is IBM the other is Lexmark.

I'd use it more often, but as I get up at 4:30am and check emails and stuff it would wake everyone else up :))

Is your desk quite thick?  Mine isn't, and the sounds mine makes is a lot more hollow.
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Re: IBM Space Saving Keyboard "SSK" Model M review (IBM buckling spring)
« Reply #5 on: Mon, 22 July 2019, 00:07:16 »
Quote from: rowdy on Sun, 21 July 2019, 22:11:16
Great review, as usual :)

Coincidentally I pulled one of mine out on the weekend.  Great to use.

Mine both cost around $200, one is IBM the other is Lexmark.

I'd use it more often, but as I get up at 4:30am and check emails and stuff it would wake everyone else up :))

Is your desk quite thick?  Mine isn't, and the sounds mine makes is a lot more hollow.
not super thick mate, it's IKEA xD .
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Re: IBM Space Saving Keyboard "SSK" Model M review (IBM buckling spring)
« Reply #6 on: Mon, 22 July 2019, 05:28:27 »
Quote from: chyros on Mon, 22 July 2019, 00:07:16
Quote from: rowdy on Sun, 21 July 2019, 22:11:16
Great review, as usual :)

Coincidentally I pulled one of mine out on the weekend.  Great to use.

Mine both cost around $200, one is IBM the other is Lexmark.

I'd use it more often, but as I get up at 4:30am and check emails and stuff it would wake everyone else up :))

Is your desk quite thick?  Mine isn't, and the sounds mine makes is a lot more hollow.
not super thick mate, it's IKEA xD .

Odd - perhaps bolt-modding makes more of a difference than I suspected.

Mine are not (as far as I know), and don't need it, apart from a rattly Esc on the Lexmark.  But on my cheap 1cm thick small wooden desk they both sound as hollow as anything.
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NEC APC-H4100E | Ducky DK9008 Shine MX blue LED red | Ducky DK9008 Shine MX blue LED green | Link 900243-08 | CM QFR MX black | KeyCool 87 white MX reds | HHKB 2 Pro | Model M 02-Mar-1993 | Model M 29-Nov-1995 | CM Trigger (broken) | CM QFS MX green | Ducky DK9087 Shine 3 TKL Yellow Edition MX black | Lexmark SSK 21-Apr-1994 | IBM SSK 13-Oct-1987 | CODE TKL MX clear | Model M 122 01-Jun-1988

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Re: IBM Space Saving Keyboard "SSK" Model M review (IBM buckling spring)
« Reply #7 on: Mon, 22 July 2019, 10:33:31 »
Quote from: rowdy on Mon, 22 July 2019, 05:28:27
Quote from: chyros on Mon, 22 July 2019, 00:07:16
Quote from: rowdy on Sun, 21 July 2019, 22:11:16
Great review, as usual :)

Coincidentally I pulled one of mine out on the weekend.  Great to use.

Mine both cost around $200, one is IBM the other is Lexmark.

I'd use it more often, but as I get up at 4:30am and check emails and stuff it would wake everyone else up :))

Is your desk quite thick?  Mine isn't, and the sounds mine makes is a lot more hollow.
not super thick mate, it's IKEA xD .

Odd - perhaps bolt-modding makes more of a difference than I suspected.

Mine are not (as far as I know), and don't need it, apart from a rattly Esc on the Lexmark.  But on my cheap 1cm thick small wooden desk they both sound as hollow as anything.
Prettu sure I did a video where I compared typing sounds of bolt-modded v unmodded Ms - listen for yourself! :)
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Re: IBM Space Saving Keyboard "SSK" Model M review (IBM buckling spring)
« Reply #8 on: Wed, 31 July 2019, 08:18:14 »
Quote from: fanpeople on Sat, 13 July 2019, 07:23:38
And.... now i regret selling mine.

Oh dear me...
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