The joys of an antique keyboard
Apple Extended Keyboard (AEK) photo by bujcich The best tech I’ve bought this year is a keyboard made in 1987. Having sailed past the 40-year mark a few years ago, I’m an older geek. Also, I’m a sentimental geek. If I had some sort of infinite garage, I’d store every piece of electronic gear I’ve ever owned, a personal personal computer museum. Maybe once a year I’d play Ultima IV on my old Apple IIgs , or run Alias Sketch! on the Quadra 840av . It would be a fun few hours of geek nostalgia. Obviously you wouldn’t want to attempt to do work on those ancient artifacts. I’ve been known to cling to old technology , but at least my computers are from this millennium and, crucially, can run the current generation of apps and operating systems. Even if you could somehow get one of those old machines to run modern software, you’d find their processors unbearably slow, their memory and storage ridiculously tiny, their CRT screens uncomfortably small, and their mechanical mic...