I would be more than happy to have modern versions that were so great to type on. While I really enjoy my iMac I cannot stand Apple keyboards or mice. The mush boards at work provided by Dell aren't much better.
Compaq keyboards weren't all that great, when compared to the IBM boards of the same era. The Compaq keyboards were quite mushy.
Where Compaq had it all over IBM was its video boards. IBM gave you a choice of two video boards: CGA and MDA. CGA gave you color and graphics, but at the expense of high quality text. With MDA, you sacrificed the graphics but the characters in text mode were rendered with a 9x14 bitmap rather than an 8x8 bitmap. This resulted in a huge quality improvement. What Compaq did was develop a video board/monitor combination that supported the higher resolution rendering in text mode, but still supported CGA quality graphics. It was a nice compromise for the time.
(The other compromise board was the 'Hercules' board. These boards connected to an IBM MDA monitor, but had a special high resolution graphics mode. They had high quality text, and better high-resolution graphics than CGA, but they weren't as widely supported.)