Selling keyboards without the terminal

[Daniel Seagraves]

> 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.