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Re:New Model M Is an American-Made Keyboard That Puts a Spri... by dartharva on Thursday February 18, 2021 @11:05AM (#26181509)
In India we have the TVS Gold range of mechanical keyboards that are complete rip-offs of the Model M but are also very cheap: https://www.tvs-e.in/keyboards-and-mice/

They are extremely popular, almost standard-issue in most of India's government offices.

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Re:New Model M Is an American-Made Keyboard That Puts a Spri... by driverdan on Thursday February 18, 2021 @11:43AM (#26182058)
Those are not buckling springs, they use Chinese cherry blue knockoff switches. Still not a bad price for US$36 on Amazon.in.
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Re:New Model M Is an American-Made Keyboard That Puts a Spri... by abvr on Thursday February 18, 2021 @03:35PM (#26185141)
Yes, unfortunately current manufacturing practices forced them to switch over to Chinese clones of the Cherry MX. I'm writing this on their late 90's Cherry MX Blue based keyboard (which I'm lucky to still use) which were switched over to the cheaper Chinese switches in the last decade.
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