[rescue] Happiness is:

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Mon Mar 31 23:14:09 CDT 2008


der Mouse wrote:
>>>> * Symbolics 3670
>>> You guys impress me more and more every day!!!
>> Is there a way to run Genera (or another similarly
>> programmer-friendly environment) under emulation on a PC?
> 
> Probably, but I question how well it would work.  Much of what I liked
> about the Lisp Machines I used was having a keyboard designed in
> conjunction with the environment.
> 
> Now, if you can find a source for the keyboards....  (Actually, if you
> can find a source for the *right* keyboards, I want a couple, even
> without the emnulation environment.  At least if they include enough
> hardware doc to hook them up to something.)

I suspect that, if we can get a modest number of us together for a group 
buy, we could have Unicomp make keyboards with buckling-spring 
keyswitches and a LISP-specific layout for (I'm guessing, but not 
without experience in these matters...) US$200ish.

Peace...  Sridhar



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