Truth be told I had no idea why I bought it. I was using a Compaq 11800 as my daily driver and thought a more compact board would be fun to try. The Compaq 11800 isn't NKRO, but the ~4KRO (thanks to some dastardly jumper wires in every switch) made it pretty solid even for gaming. The TG3 was ~2KRO so I thought I'd handwire it for NKRO. I had so much trouble removing the original PCB (solder wick and a gas powered iron at that point) and broke a number of stubborn LEDs so I set it aside until I got more practice soldering. With a pump and a better iron I've had a much easier time (the second project was desoldering a linear space invader board terminal board, cutting down the case to TKL and trying to handwire it... I finally cut and epoxied the case just last week so it only took like 4 years
), and it was only a few months ago I learned the magical power of flux, so I'm still pretty stupid, but I like to think I'm finally at the point where the stuff that stumped me is... still a complete pain in the ass but at least its doable.
The thing that annoys me the most is seeing early cherry (G80 - 0XXX stuff) broken down for vintage blacks... especially when they are AT/XT boards with Model F layouts or standalone keyboards for the Amiga (not something completely stupid like most Wyse/Link branded terminal boards, but the doubleshots only fit one layout well). Cherry used to OEM keyboard assemblies (not unlike the TG3 but I can't find that listing now) and its fascinating to see Cherry caps with adaptors to fit NEC oval switches, how thin OG R0 keycaps were, or how Cherry would have circular windows in doubleshot caps.