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Title: Everyone loves buckling springs
Post by: Phaedrus2129 on Thu, 23 September 2010, 21:06:18
I had my family (mom, step-dad, sister, grandma) all sit down and try out my keyboards. I let them try everything in my collection plus an MX blue board, and all four of them picked the buckling springs as their favorites, followed by MX blues, browns, the NMB rubber dome, and MY switches in various order. My grandmother said it reminded her of typewriters; my sister said "it just feels right". My mother complained about the MX blues hurting her fingers (bottoming out?) and said the SMKs felt "sticky". Jeff gave no reasons, but praised the Model M on its solid feeling.




Four people with no interest in keyboards, and they all immediately picked the IBM Model M as their favorite. IBM got something right. :)
Title: Everyone loves buckling springs
Post by: wellington1869 on Thu, 23 September 2010, 22:44:47
interesting story phaedrus, thanks for sharing. I'm guessing the results of such a test with my family would be very similar.
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Post by: Oqsy on Thu, 23 September 2010, 22:52:15
My family are all Amish and have never been allowed to see my keyboards.
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Post by: TexasFlood on Thu, 23 September 2010, 23:21:01
My wife is something of a Luddite so I have to keep the good keyboards squirreled away in the office for fear she might try to destroy them.
(http://twibbon.s3.amazonaws.com/0ef523c6-c61d-417c-bba0-e4cb1d3ee32a.png)
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Post by: Oqsy on Fri, 24 September 2010, 00:02:05
My wife is also a Sodomite, so I have to keep my poop chute squirreled away in the office for fear she might try to destroy it.
Title: Everyone loves buckling springs
Post by: TexasFlood on Fri, 24 September 2010, 00:13:26
Quote from: Oqsy;226136
My wife is also a Sodomite, so I have to keep my poop chute squirreled away in the office for fear she might try to destroy it.

Is this sign posted out in front of your house? :shocked:
(http://www.jonco48.com/blog/corn_20hole.jpg)
Title: Everyone loves buckling springs
Post by: TexasFlood on Fri, 24 September 2010, 00:29:37
Quote from: ripster;226137
Better than being a Vegemite.

That's REALLY gross.
Show Image
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Australian kids apparently disagree, at least in Kraft ads.
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Post by: kill will on Fri, 24 September 2010, 02:24:07
i like turtles!
Title: A LOL day it twas...
Post by: clickclack on Fri, 24 September 2010, 04:39:33
Geez, the posts were hillarious all over the forum today what got into everyone? Many lawlz!

Anywho...

Many of my family members unfortunately did not particuarly take to the model M. Honestly though, I think it had to do 100% with the amount of noise it created. Because all of them liked the key action, can't win them all I guess.

@ kill will
welcome to geekhack, epic first post! =P
haahaaa
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Post by: ricercar on Fri, 24 September 2010, 04:42:52
My wife stole my Model M so I had to get another for myself.
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Post by: Ekaros on Fri, 24 September 2010, 07:19:16
Now I have to get M once I found one or get money for it...
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Post by: Phaedrus2129 on Fri, 24 September 2010, 08:21:41
It probably helped that we did this test in a well-funished family room with the TV on low, so the noise wasn't as noticeable.
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Post by: NewbieOneKenobi on Fri, 24 September 2010, 09:46:20
My grannie was a professional typist back when touch-typing was taught using blindfold and she actually says she prefers the rubber dome IBM I have here to M.
Title: Everyone loves buckling springs
Post by: Rusty Rat on Sun, 26 September 2010, 02:01:25
Quote from: ripster;226137
Better than being a Vegemite.

That's REALLY gross.
Show Image
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ioGdxtJ5xoQ/S43oq9BUZYI/AAAAAAAAAkQ/FlDDLOJ27vY/s400/vegemite.jpg)

That brown stuff is a picture of what the US economy is in.

No GFC or Financial Crisis in Vegemite land. We are all financially happy little Vegemites.

Perhaps the Australian Government should remove the ban on only allowing export to countries whose first language is English and send a container of it to Washington.
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Post by: KillerBee on Sun, 26 September 2010, 12:09:36
I tried to convince my dad to use the M and he said I rather use my "Microsoft Wireless"

My little Sister ran away with my parts Model M!
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Post by: Oqsy on Sun, 26 September 2010, 12:50:08
Australian, your post doesn't make sense.  Edit or repost so that I can make fun of your point instead of your awkward sentence structure and strange contradictory sarcasm.
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Post by: Rusty Rat on Sun, 26 September 2010, 16:28:08
Quote from: Oqsy;227002
Australian, your post doesn't make sense.  Edit or repost so that I can make fun of your point instead of your awkward sentence structure and strange contradictory sarcasm.

I apologize for writing in English and using proper grammar. Touchy lot you Americans, perhaps waiting for what the Canadians will do on the bi centennial of 1812?
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Post by: Rusty Rat on Sun, 26 September 2010, 16:32:01
Quote from: ripster;227007
I can't wait for Australia to implement it's country wide Internet filtering program.  Then we can insult Australia mercilessly and they'll never even know it.



Unfortunately we will. Conjobs bill only filters material written in English.
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Post by: patrickgeekhack on Sun, 26 September 2010, 19:55:41
I remember my uncle visiting me and saying how much my keyboard my smooth after typing on my Customizer 104. Buckling spring has something unique about them and if one has not tried the various other switches before, they feel so good.

I was very very happy when I first got my Customizer after years of typing on a rubber dome keyboard.
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Post by: Ulysses31 on Mon, 27 September 2010, 21:10:05
Vegemite was intended to be a cheap substitute for Marmite.  I can't imagine it being even remotely palatable considering what Marmite tastes like.  Marmite crisps on the other hand are lovely, mostly because they taste exactly the same as the beef and onion ones.

I wouldn't mind trying a Model-M again some day, but considering their age, origins and the number of past users, i'd probably be safer licking a public toilet seat than handling a very old keyboard.