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My 1984 IBM Model M is still a joy to type on. Every key still works fine, and I wouldn't trade it for any keyboard made in the last 20 years even if new ones come in colours other than beige or weigh less than 10 pounds.

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I got a stack of Model Ms from a school surplus sale in 1996; spent some time cleaning them up, and never worried about having a keyboard until earlier this year, when the last one finally died. I'm sure I could go through the stack again and refurbish most if not all of them for another 20 years service.

I bought two Unicomp Model M keyboards and they've been great.

Do you have a USB adaptor for yours?

I have a Unicomp but I'm disappointed that the resistance varies a lot from key to key. Maybe I got a bad unit?

I'm thinking so. I have a unicomp and I don't notice a difference between the keys.

I have an AT to PS/2 adapter. I don't think motherboards will stop having PS/2 ports in the foreseeable future, and arguments can be made that PS/2 is still the superior connector for keyboards in terms of latency, simultaneous key presses, using hardware interrupts instead of software, and general authenticity of using a connector from the 80s to connect an 80s keyboard.

My current PC doesn't have a PS/2 port. It's a Ryzen build.

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