Selling keyboards without the terminal

[Warner Losh]

On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 9:59 AM John Foust via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:

> At 10:41 AM 10/19/2018, js--- via cctalk wrote:
> >B, I don't get it.  Why is the keyboard being sold alone, when the
> terminal is right there?  And how come this particular keyboard is so
> hugely in demand?
>
> My son is a fancy Silicon Valley twenty-something programmer, and
> all he wanted for Christmas last year was one of my old IBM M series
> keyboards.
>
> Collectible and usable; no doubt someone sells an adapter to USB.
>

They are just PS/2 keyboards, right? Or AT? The USB adapters for that are a
dime a dozen. I have 4 in my basement (the real PS/2 to USB, not the faux
ones that allowed dual-mode mice to connect to USB).

Warner