The age of keyboard enthusiasts had arrived. Sometime around 2012, on a few of the Internet’s largest mechanical keyboard communities, news of a strange IBM keyboard made the rounds.

My previous keyboard's finally given up the dust, and I'm using a weird IBM terminal keyboard... looks vaguely like a 104-key except it's also got F13 thru ...

8BitDo's IBM-like M Edition keyboard. 8BitDo Design cues help pay tribute to the '80s buckling spring keyboard. 8BitDo It even has arrows on the Tab key, like the original Model M had. 8BitDo ...

We’ve featured a few capacitive keyboards here at Hackaday before, including this similar repair to a Compaq from the 1980s, and this look at a classic IBM terminal keyboard.