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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: CX23882 on Sat, 29 November 2008, 20:05:43

Title: Movie keyboard sounds
Post by: CX23882 on Sat, 29 November 2008, 20:05:43

I was just watching the movie Ghost, and it can only be the the geek in me that appreciates the keyboard sound of the IBM PC-AT keyboards in the scene when Carl realises the account has been closed.

Does anyone know whether the PC-AT keyboard sounds like or if it's possible they used a different keyboard for the sounds.  I have a couple of Model M (a Greenock-produced model and a Unicomp) and they sound very different.

Title: Movie keyboard sounds
Post by: bhtooefr on Sat, 29 November 2008, 20:11:50

The Model F sounds basically like a Model M... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftM3OdZ_obY

It's still buckling spring, it's just different underneath the buckling spring units. (Capacitive switches like what's at the bottom of a Topre, instead of a membrane sheet.)

Title: Movie keyboard sounds
Post by: Eclairz on Sun, 30 November 2008, 01:24:58

Jumping jack flash another movie with keyboard clicking and whoopie goldberg hmmm is a she a secret keyboard junkie?

Title: Movie keyboard sounds
Post by: xsphat on Sun, 30 November 2008, 01:54:33

Movie reuse soundbites like that hundreds of times. That's why half of them sound like Model Ms and the other half sound those crappy Dells.