.video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gvMPBSGVng
embed: Hope you enjoy
.IBM Model M2 "Selectric Touch" review (membrane buckling springs)
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Redmaus
- Gotta start somewhere
- Location: Near Dallas, Texas
- Main keyboard: Unsaver | 3276 | Kingsaver
- Main mouse: Kensington Slimblade
- Favorite switch: Capacitative Buckling Spring
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I very much did enjoy it. I love all the insight you put into these videos. The history, known issues, and comparisons.
Please keep making these
Please keep making these
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Nuum
- Location: Germany
- Main keyboard: KBD8X Mk I (60g Clears), Phantom (Nixdorf Blacks)
- Main mouse: Corsair M65 PRO RGB
- Favorite switch: 60g MX Clears/Brown Alps/Buckling spring
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Nice review! Thanks for the typing demo, I've wondered how these sound.
It's dye-sublimated btw, not sublimed, I think.
It's dye-sublimated btw, not sublimed, I think.
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Redmaus
- Gotta start somewhere
- Location: Near Dallas, Texas
- Main keyboard: Unsaver | 3276 | Kingsaver
- Main mouse: Kensington Slimblade
- Favorite switch: Capacitative Buckling Spring
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Chyros
- Location: The Netherlands
- Main keyboard: whatever I'm reviewing next :p
- Main mouse: a cheap Logitech
- Favorite switch: Alps SKCM Blue
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Hahaha I don't think I'd have enough keyboards to sustain that for very long mate xD . I'd happily keep doing reviews as much as I can though, it just depends on how many keyboards I can get
. It's interesting; I get a lot more responses to my reviews on this site than I do on GH (probably has to do with site demographics). Yeah they sound quite interesting. One thing I didn't put into the video; when you press a button, you can actually hear all the springs in the keyboard rustle in the M2. Obviously in the Model M this isn't an issue.Nice review! Thanks for the typing demo, I've wondered how these sound.
It's dye-sublimated btw, not sublimed, I think.
As for sublimed or sublimated; yeah, I wasn't sure either, but I just looked it up on a few verb conjugation websites and it would appear that "sublimed" is the correct one (e.g. http://www.the-conjugation.com/english/verb/sublime.php).
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Redmaus
- Gotta start somewhere
- Location: Near Dallas, Texas
- Main keyboard: Unsaver | 3276 | Kingsaver
- Main mouse: Kensington Slimblade
- Favorite switch: Capacitative Buckling Spring
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Chyros
- Location: The Netherlands
- Main keyboard: whatever I'm reviewing next :p
- Main mouse: a cheap Logitech
- Favorite switch: Alps SKCM Blue
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I already have a video review on a Fujitsu Peerless and AEK/AEKII, if you're interested
. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... MmLRKpmbfB
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XMIT
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- Location: Austin, TX area
- Main keyboard: XMIT Hall Effect
- Main mouse: CST L-Trac Trackball
- Favorite switch: XMIT 60g Tactile Hall Effect
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Any chance you can create a thread where the first post is a list of all of the reviews you have done? That, and/or keep the Wiki current by updating it with your videos?
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seebart
- Offtopicthority Instigator
- Location: Germany
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- Main mouse: Steelseries Sensei
- Favorite switch: IBM capacitive buckling spring
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Good review as usual Chyros. Thanks.
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Chyros
- Location: The Netherlands
- Main keyboard: whatever I'm reviewing next :p
- Main mouse: a cheap Logitech
- Favorite switch: Alps SKCM Blue
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I have little experience with wiki coding so I'm a bit afraid to dig into there - besides, these are just my opinions, of course
. I'll make a thread outlining all my video reviews now - if you guys think it'd be a good idea maybe someone could sticky it .-
Muirium
- µ
- Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
- Main keyboard: HHKB Type-S with Bluetooth by Hasu
- Main mouse: Apple Magic Mouse
- Favorite switch: Gotta Try 'Em All
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I feel your pain re: the wiki. I find editing the thing as anxiety inducing as whenever I touch code. Not because it'll break and catch fire (as code does) but because when I preview anything I've done it looks like shit. There's some manual code of style to editing (and especially creating new pages in) wikis that you must internalise. But as a total raving incompetent at anything that isn't laid out in English, I can't see it for the tags.
As for a sticky: nope. Not for a single user's work. But I could support a reviews index. Something like Matteo's Workshop Threads of Interest, for reviews instead. Every half decent review thread could be linked there, ordered by subject.
As for a sticky: nope. Not for a single user's work. But I could support a reviews index. Something like Matteo's Workshop Threads of Interest, for reviews instead. Every half decent review thread could be linked there, ordered by subject.
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micrex22
- Location: Canada
- Main keyboard: UltraNav
- Favorite switch: BS
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Great review as always, my only criticism would be that the M2 wasn't exclusively a cheaper keyboard, but also to fulfill a smaller form factor. If you recall, the M2 was released as a redesign specifically for the PS/1 systems and actually borrowed from the PS/55 5576-003 keyboards (which are very similar in profile).
The PCjr already had a far cheaper design than the M2, of which its 5576-003 heritage was already operating in Japan since 'regular' Model Ms were just too bulky. And the M2 form factor was ultimately used on the M15 as well--you wouldn't be able to market a split Model M as ergonomic since the profile is pretty 'generous'
The PCjr already had a far cheaper design than the M2, of which its 5576-003 heritage was already operating in Japan since 'regular' Model Ms were just too bulky. And the M2 form factor was ultimately used on the M15 as well--you wouldn't be able to market a split Model M as ergonomic since the profile is pretty 'generous'
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