geekhack

geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: kaiserreich on Fri, 11 July 2014, 08:10:12

Title: Dave Jones (EEVBlog)'s favourite keyboard
Post by: kaiserreich on Fri, 11 July 2014, 08:10:12

Dave jones was doing a teardown on an old IBM PC and had his 'keyboard moment' :p
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=h4QNxhlCHFo#t=142

Sorry, i don't know how to embed youtube videos

Title: Re: Dave Jones (EEVBlog)'s favourite keyboard
Post by: jacobolus on Fri, 11 July 2014, 08:17:49

Buckling rubber sleeve, right? Anyone like these? (I think he needs to try some other types of keyswitches :p)

Anyone know what type of keyswitches were used on the IBM Thinkpad 701 (the “butterfly” keyboard)? My family had one of those when I was a kid, and I found the switches to be quite a bit too stiff for my taste. Someone at IBM must have really liked stiffer keyboards: whatever the butterfly keyboard had, brown Alps switches in the PC Convertible 5140, Model M buckling springs, etc. In general nice tactile switches, but they’d be even much nicer still if you reduced the actuation force by 10–20%

Title: Re: Dave Jones (EEVBlog)'s favourite keyboard
Post by: dorkvader on Fri, 11 July 2014, 11:27:02

i believe the butterfly was a normal scissor kb. will do some poking around though.