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(Extinct web pages about) extinct ergo keyboards
hoggy:
I wonder if it was an attempt to get a classier look. The navigation keys suggest that aesthetics might have been more important.
Funnily enough, Maltron sells bags for the larger keyboards, but I don't remember any that would fit the executive.
nomaded:
--- Quote from: hoggy on Thu, 27 February 2014, 11:55:29 ---I wonder if it was an attempt to get a classier look. The navigation keys suggest that aesthetics might have been more important.
Funnily enough, Maltron sells bags for the larger keyboards, but I don't remember any that would fit the executive.
--- End quote ---
Based on the name alone, i would guess that it was designed to go into a fancy office of some higher up executive with a shiny steel and glass desk.
jacobolus:
Well I tried sending a note to all the emails for Benjamin Rossen (of DataStealth, etc.) I could find online. 3 of the 4 failed immediately; we’ll see if the last one still goes through to anyone.
jacobolus:
The Daewoo KOBO game console, 1990, and its Daewoo CPC-330K keyboard: http://www.msx.org/forum/msx-talk/hardware/zemmix-kobo-until-now-unknown
jacobolus:
Now here’s a fun picture, via reddit:
http://www.gettyimages.de/detail/nachrichtenfoto/futuristic-office-composed-of-a-typewriter-television-nachrichtenfoto/104417789
"A Futurist Desk In Hanover In 1969: A futuristic office composed of a typewriter, television screens, a video recorder and a photocopier are presented at the exhibition of Hanover in Germany."
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