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                             Now that's a keyboard
                                        
Via Lobsters [1], I came across this incredibly insane Japanese keyboard:

[A closeup of a gargantuan Japanese keyboard] Just this portion of the
keyboard represents only 6% of all the keys [2]
 [3] 

The photo itself is from DeskThority [4], and it's described as an an Alps
CP10SJ550A kanji keyboard from Japan. It has 542 keys and weighs around 27
pounds (12kg (kilograms) for those with a sane measurement system). It's an
insane keyboard, and … I kind of want one.

I'm not sure what I would use it for. I suppose I could map each ASCII
(American Standard Code for Information Interchange) code to its own key, map
syntatic constructs for multiple languages to its own key, and still have
some left over for … oh … I don't know … simulating a piano.

I don't even know where one would get such a keyboard, but I'm sure Bunny can
find one in time for Christmas (muahahahahahahaha!).

[1] https://lobste.rs/s/vkhfps/steve_jobs_jef_raskin_first_great_war_for
[2] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2025/09/24/thumb-jkeyboard.jpg
[3] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2025/09/24/jkeyboard.jpg
[4] https://deskthority.net/viewtopic.php?t=21937&__cf_chl_f_tk=HJwMU3qOCUJagkEWQfnfTLxC8t1ypukGKDHJU1u.ggM-1758573593-1.0.1.1-zUUukqA_Mx2aWPLFVIuC.m8mu3MvkQQ3FiSIGDmBLSI

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