20 Oct
2018
20 Oct
'18
8:41 a.m.
From: Al Kossow
The quality of modern keycaps is poor.
These guys are after mechanical boards with double-shot keytops.
There's something I'm still not quite grasping.
I can see two reasons for people liking the old keyboards:
- i) Higher quality construction
- ii) Connection, through a historial artifact, to an earlier age
Am I missing any?
I can definitely see the first (I myself find many modern keyboards to be
complete crap), but if that's _all_ it is, I'd think there'd be a market for
modern production of quality keyboards - not a large market, true, but I'd
think it would be large enough to be worth servicing? (Unless the cost to
produce such would be so high that there wouldn't be any buyers - but that
seems at odd with some of the prices being mentioned.)
So maybe people _only_ want keyboards that have both i) and ii)?
Noel