[Info-vax] Should VSI commission the production of DEC layout keyboards ?

[Subcommandante XDelta]

On Thu, 21 Jul 2022 12:19:13 -0000 (UTC), Simon Clubley
<clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:

>While reading the list of what people are likely to ask for next in VMS,
>I realised that some people missed the real DEC keyboards.

YES!

>So, should VSI commission the production of a DEC layout keyboard with,
>say, a USB interface ?

YES!

>How many of you would be interested in that and how much would you pay ?
>
>For me, I've no interest in moving from a full PC keyboard as that _is_
>my "DEC" keyboard, and has been for a long time, but I thought I would
>ask the question anyway.
>
>Simon.

Sorted, really - petition Unicomp:

The best of all possible worlds: The best of the IBM keyboard
production values with the DEC layouts.

Not made in New Hampshire, but close enough.

https://www.pckeyboard.com/

May it come to pass, and not before time.

PS: Do check out this thing of Joy and Beauty (and abstract Lexical
Discourse. ;-) ):

https://www.pckeyboard.com/page/product/00UA41P4A