19 Oct
2018
19 Oct
'18
1:54 p.m.
On 10/19/18 1:18 PM, Daniel Seagraves via cctalk wrote:
So, are you telling me I shouldn't have thrown out all those
old keyboards whether they worked or not?? All I have now
are a lot of DEC keyboards/
bill
On Oct 19,
2018, at 10:34 AM, Bill Degnan via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Here is a great example of why the keyboards and terminals are getting
separated
Keyboard fetishists are vermin; They are destructive and have no redeeming qualities, and
should be treated as such.
I had one of them spend the better part of an hour going on about how I had achieved ?the
holy grail of collecting? by having more than one ?Space Cadet? keyboard, fawning about
how superlatively perfect they?re supposed to be and everything else pales in comparison.
They?re a status symbol in keyboard fetishist circles. According to him they auction north
of $5000 for even non-working examples. I have no idea why. GNU Emacs can't use most
of the ?special? keys - The Lisp Machine itself doesn't even use most of them - and
control is in the same relative place as modern keyboards instead of being where the caps
lock key is which was the "mostest hacker-est? thing last I heard. I think it?s just
conspicuous consumption - Having one proves you?ve got the dosh to waste things other
people must work hard for a chance to get.