I'm so saddened by the state of bespoke crafts nowadays. Seventy years ago, it would have been possible to go into a famous firm based on Savile Row or London's West End and feel reasonably assured that you're getting the best of the best. However, the decline of bespoke crafts and the loss of skilled labor have made that no longer true. Let me... See more

Only in newer keyboards are the letters printed on top of the keys, or charred from their surface by a laser. In older ones – those from the early 1960s laboratory computers, or the 1980s microcomputers – the way every key was constructed was by first molding the letter from plastic of one color, and then grabbing a different plastic and molding

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