Is this a new record?

[Richard Pope]

Chuck and et al,
     I just showed this to a friend of mine. She sent me a one word 
reply: 'Stupid'. I have to agree.
GOD Bless and Thanks,
rich!

On 4/22/2021 8:31 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
> On 4/22/21 5:13 PM, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote:
>> On Apr 22, 2021, at 5:08 PM, Chris Zach via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>>> Jesus, I just traded a Perq1 keyboard to a guy for a $100 donation to a food bank of his choice. What is it with keyboards lately?
>> That’s a really good question.  Are they being used for emulators?  If so, I can sort of understand this.
>>
>> The reason I have a DEC VT420 sitting next to my desk is so that I can have the appropriate keyboard, when I need it.  It uses LAT to talk to PDP-10, PDP-11, VAX, and Alpha systems (mostly emulated these days).
>>
>> I’ve been seriously considering a Honeywell terminal, for accessing my Multics system (I have used the VT420).
> As far as I can tell, they're being hacked to use as gaming keyboards.
>   At least the IBM beam-spring ones seem to be.
>
> Makes little sense to me.
>
> --Chuck
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