Phasor Burn

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Yet another collection of random crud found on other sites, interspersed with the rantings of a not-quite-greybeard unix geek. Pass the Guinness and Grecian Formula.

Aha, I found a detailed description of how my buckling spring keyboards produce that wonderful tactile and audible feedback.

Here’s an animated image that shows how it works.

Buckling Spring

5 Responses to “Buckling Spring Keyboard Video”

  1. Neat. (Even though I’m typing this on a laptop keyboard that is miles away from the old-school IBM buckling spring jobbies…)

    arto

  2. Mmmmmm…. Sweet, sweet buckling clickity clickity goodness…..

    Shall I plug www.pckeyboard.com now or shall I mention I don’t have to thanks to raiding the trunk of Mr. Bug’s car? I’m still tempted to buy a new one just to do the Windows-E and Windows-D tricks again.

    - Zarq

    Zarquil

  3. Yeah, I need the extra couple of keys for mac goodness too. My old school ibm keyboard is great except for whne I need to reach to the notebook’s keyboard to do some command-something key sequence.

    trever

  4. Update: Zarquil and Trever did buy some spanking new usb keyboards with the extra ‘lindows’ / ‘mac’ keys from pckeyboards.com

    Wonderful clicky goodness.

    admin

  5. Mine is still going strong. Clickity-clackity-click.

    Trever

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