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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: intelli78 on Fri, 03 October 2014, 08:05:25

Title: IBM M4 and M4-1
Post by: intelli78 on Fri, 03 October 2014, 08:05:25

http://imgur.com/a/jZ7dU

Anybody have one of these and find it worthwhile? I have been interested in short-throw keyboards lately, but my last experiment with a Cherry ML board was terrible. These IBM boards look similar to ML, but do they feel similar?

Title: Re: IBM M4 and M4-1
Post by: Computer-Lab in Basement on Fri, 03 October 2014, 08:23:26

They essentially feel like rubber domes.

If you were to remove the rubber "sleeves" and replace them with springs, I could imagine you could make these into short-throw linear switches. Something I have always wanted to try, but I just don't know where I could obtain the appropriate springs.

The M4-1 was the first keyboard I bought after joining GeekHack. Overall, it's not a bad keyboard. I used mine for a good long time before I  got a Model M.