i do love the old keyboards more than modern ones. but one thing that would drive me bonkers is the arrow keys on that board. i'm too spoiled by the inverted t on modern keyboards.

of course i'm looking at the release of the zx spectrum clone and love it but do wonder if they had to duplicate was considered for a long time the worst keyboard in computer history. :-)

i also recommend micro men from 2009 as a drama recreation of the era.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXBxV6-zamM

a form factor i hope catches on and sticks around. i'd love something like this for games but capable of running linux. just add a keyboard and you have a tiny display laptop. would be nice if someone made a standard dock so you can connect one to a decent keyboard and save carrying something to hold it at right angle.

even into the 1990s i knew a few companies that kept typewriters around as they were better/easier for typing up addresses on envelopes.

distraction free computing. your computer did 1 thing at a time. your attention was focused on that one single task to the exclusion of everything else. no interruptions, no distractions of emails, messages, web.

your computer was secure, it was connected to nothing but a few peripherals. now it's constantly connected to an insecure network that is looking for new and clever ways to find your identity to steal, your credit card information to sell and abuse.

can be found here https://winworldpc.com/product/borland-pascal/7x

fabulous machine but at 700 euros it's too pricey.

i await the day when such a device has a single usb socket to power and connect it and contains not just an sd card reader but the hardware to emulate the computer itself and still fit on a keyring. plug it into a hub/dock with a keyboard mouse and display and the entire computer is ready to go. :-)

love my psion 3mx. will never be parted from it. great machine.

if you are on mastodon https://bitbang.social/@thelastpsion/110003883673850146 is the psion person to follow as they seem to have the entire collection, lucky sod :-)

i've always thought there was a market for turning all those obsolete fax machines into cheap thermal printers for infrequent home use. would be better than landfill.

or an old zx spectrum thermal printer. i don't need quality, just a cheap way to print out a small amount of things.

i do have a laser i use for printing <20-30 pages a year. it just seems a waste of space for the low page count.