Keyboard "enthusiasts"

It's not just on ebay. I asked fellow collectors on 68kmla about their machine to keyboard/mouse ratio and they all had more machines then keyboards. Sooner or later machines will be useless because there are not enough keyboards and mice to go around. While I keep stacks of mac keyboards and mice in the garage and a stack of AT and IBM Model M keyboards in the house I have very few USB keyboards for more modern machines in my collection (mostly because by the time USB keyboards were common they were cheap junk). Most of the PS/2 keyboards made were also junk but I kept a few that were machine specific. I just use a KVM with a USB to PS/2 adapter and a Model M keyboard plus USB Microsoft Optical mouse (optical mice are better then the old ones with balls). I even keep old ball mice around for that vintage feel and to match my systems (and those do wear out). Amiga mice for one are pretty hard to find especially the A1000 models with the angled plug. I don't have a problem with people stealing keyboards and junking systems when in all likelyhood the whole thing would get scrapped anyway. Many of the local machines I have saved over the years were just too heavy to ship and worthless at the time so they would have ended up in a dump anyway. How many terminal collectors are there now compared to ten years ago or 20 when terminal were more common? As keyboards are going up in value I suspect that they just keep getting traded around kind of like computers themselves (people buy them get bored and flip or trade them). TZ -----Original Message----- From: dwight via cctalk Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2018 1:28 PM To: Ian Finder ; General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: Keyboard "enthusiasts" How many Mac's do you see on ebay with no keyboard? Dwight ________________________________ From: cctalk <cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org> on behalf of Ian Finder via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2018 11:37:14 AM To: Daniel Seagraves; General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: Keyboard "enthusiasts" On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 11:32 AM, Daniel Seagraves via cctalk < cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote: Thanks, Daniel, for this succinct differentiation! -- Ian Finder (206) 395-MIPS ian.finder at gmail.com --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus