Typing instead of swiping: IBM Model M. They are available again. As the Unicomp M2 keyboard.
The IBM Model M keyboard was first produced from 1984 to 1999. These heavy and stable devices (1.7 kg) owe their enduring reputation to their superior mechanics: Their keys are activated by a real coil spring that buckles under the typist's finger pressure (‘buckling spring’), thereby activating a hammer that switches two conductive membranes and thus triggers the ‘keystroke’, or more precisely the interrupt. The counter-pressure of the spring and its reset behaviour provide the typist with unrivalled tactile and acoustic feedback, whereby their typing motor skills are retrained, significantly accelerating their typing and drastically reducing the number of typing errors. And it doesn't matter whether you type with two, four or ten fingers. A real buckling spring is vastly superior to the usual rubber dome and membrane keys, as well as the mechanical keyboards with Cherry MX switches that are so popular with gamers.
The American tech magazine The Verge describes the keyboard as ‘an amazing typing experience’, the German IT site golem.de states: ‘The buckling spring mechanism of the keys is a dream come true, especially for frequent typists’ and hackaday.com even speaks of ‘God's own keyboard’.
