Comment by sizzzzlerz

The year was 1978. A young engineer, just out of school with a still-warm BSEE degree, is working at his new job where programming was performed using punch cards or over the phone line with a acoustically coupled modem. After 3 or so months, the company has purchased these 3270 displays with keyboards and installed them in offices. Our junior engineer is assigned one of these. After just a few moments of use, it becomes exceedingly apparent that these are of a new class of technology, indeed, making life at work ever so much more pleasant and productive. Now retired, our engineer still remembers these quite fondly. Even more so, he remembers the keyboard. How solid it felt and the wonderful tactile feedback when pressing the keys. He might even say that it was the best keyboard that he ever used.