I learned a long time ago that keyboards and keyboard preferences are highly individualistic and what might be a great keyboard for one person can be an anathema to another. I have also learned that keyboard styles are a bit of an acquired taste and a particular key touch that you didn't like at first can grow on you to become your new favorite, but that can take several months to happen.
I got the previously mentioned Matias keyboard on the promise that it had a touch similar to the often lamented IBM keyboard. Similar touch maybe, but either memory and reality were not the same or my tastes have changed because I was almost glad when it began throwing errors as it gave me an excuse to get a new keyboard.
The point is I really like my Apple Extended Magic keyboard and I have quit looking back to "great keyboards of the past" at least in part because my memories of keyboards past is perhaps surrounded in a rosy glow.
