Keyboard "enthusiasts"

[Toby Thain]

On 2018-01-24 10:21 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
> On 24 January 2018 at 16:05, Toby Thain via cctalk
> <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> 
>> Well, if it's universally held to be desirable then there's a chance of
>> seeing one on a secondary market. But it probably therefore also be
>> overpriced.
> 
> There's that. The flipside is that there is considerable effort going
> into devising keyboard interfaces for retro keyboards to modern
> computers, and in principle, that could be reversed.

We joke that they have no qualms about Dremeling them out and sticking
Raspberry Pis inside, making them worthless for the original systems.

--T

> 
>> Bloody wankers. Keyboard is the least interesting part of a system, I
>> don't understand the fetishisation.
> 
> Hmmm. I am a bit torn here.
> ...