I am a Star Wars / sci-fi - fan who was looking to buy/build myself a new desktop computer, and this time, I wanted to build myself a sci fi-themed case -- with matching keyboard.
I like especially how the future was imagined in movies of the 1970's: in Alien, Star Wars (1977) and 2001 - A Space Odyssey.
There is a famous steampunk-modded Model M, so I started searching for info about Model Ms, and that led me here.
Otherwise, I have spent a bunch of KeyTronic rubber-dome keyboards over the years. The same type, over and over. No other rubber-dome was good enough. I do remember older clicky keyboards that I had tried in college.
Unfortunately, the only typewriter-style keyboard that I have found in Star Wars is (what looks like) a "Space Cadet" keyboard in a corner of the Millenium Falcon, and I don't think that it even was seen on screen. I have not seen a single keyboard in "2001", only a few in "2010", and the ones in Alien have been too gritty .. or mounted/modded in ways that made them unusable.
However, there are a lot of illuminated switches everywhere. I have therefore been looking into how to build a illuminated chiclet-style keyboard with full key travel, but found that that is much beyond my capabilities to make one that has the look and the feel.
I have decided to settle with starting with just a really good keyboard and to build a nice case for it. This site has provided me with a lot of useful info and made me into more of a keyboard nerd than a Star Wars-nerd for a while. I have ordered my first keyboard with clicky Cherry switches and nice-looking keycaps and I am waiting for it to arrive.