Keyboard feel

[bettablue]

I know this has been asked before, but here goes. 


Besides Inicomp, what keyboard has the closest in feel and auditory to the original IBM Model M?


Also, if the recommended board has the correct feel, but misses the auditory aspect, would you recommend the same board, or would you choose a different one?


Thanks much.  Your responses will have a direct impact on the purchase I plan to make within the next 4 to 5 weeks, depending on price.


Thomas

[fohat.digs]

Clicky black NMB "Space Invaders" are wonderful and under-rated, but they are rather rare and hard to find.

[Snowdog993]

You can try other vintage and modern keyboards.  There can be multitudes of paragraphs written about this subject, but the short answer is no in my opinion.

I'll leave it at that.

[ander]

I must agree. Lots of switches have springs, but they're there just to return the switches to their start positions. In the buckling spring switch, the spring actually throws the contact. It's such a fundamental difference, you'll never find anything else like it.

[rowdy]

I'd say a Model M

You can still get them, sometimes even new ones ("new old stock").  For the most part they still work very well.  The switch mechanism lasts for decades.

The biggest issue is plastic rivets falling off - the solution to that is to do a bolt mod - replace the rivets with small bolts and the keyboard is like new again.

Many of them are quite dirty, evidence of a busy life.  They almost always clean up very well if soaked in warm water with a little detergent or denture tabs.

Hence there is often little reason to find something like a Model M, when you can simply get an original Model M.