> On Jan 23, 2018, at 11:35 AM, Guy Sotomayor via cctalk > <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > …are the bane of my existence and should all rot in hell. > > Sorry, I just received an email from a “keyboard enthusiast” who was looking > for > various IBM 327x keyboards and wanted to know if I could help him and I needed > to vent a little. > > I sent him a polite “no way in hell” response but I’m still angry about it. > These > terminals are hard enough to find. And more often than not, the keyboard is > missing because some “enthusiast” thought it would be cool to convert it to a > PC > keyboard. ARG! And of course the keyboards that they want are the > “typewriter” > keyboards (all of my 3278 terminals have the “data entry keyboard”).
One of them scrapped a Symbolics XL for the keyswitches. That would be bad enough, but it gets worse - They did because they thought it was a CADR "Space Cadet” keyboard.
