On Sat, Oct 20, 2018, 9:42 AM Noel Chiappa via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> > From: Al Kossow > > > The quality of modern keycaps is poor. > > These guys are after mechanical boards with double-shot keytops. > > There's something I'm still not quite grasping. > > I can see two reasons for people liking the old keyboards: > > - i) Higher quality construction > - ii) Connection, through a historial artifact, to an earlier age > > Am I missing any? > > I can definitely see the first (I myself find many modern keyboards to be > complete crap), but if that's _all_ it is, I'd think there'd be a market > for > modern production of quality keyboards - not a large market, true, but I'd > think it would be large enough to be worth servicing? (Unless the cost to > produce such would be so high that there wouldn't be any buyers - but that > seems at odd with some of the prices being mentioned.) > > So maybe people _only_ want keyboards that have both i) and ii)? > I recently got a decent gamers keyboard for $60. Nnice rocker switches. Loud as hell, like the old model M battleships. Works great and has the same feel as the old ones. Even fing glows in the dark. Has just the right touch. No clue why you'd need a retro one to get the retro feel. So there's something else. Some people are judgemental about it, others are less judgmental. It's the separation from original context that I object to. Warner >
