{"id":382,"date":"2007-10-29T11:00:58","date_gmt":"2007-10-29T16:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=382"},"modified":"2007-10-29T11:12:50","modified_gmt":"2007-10-29T16:12:50","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-the-129-dollar-numeric-keypad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/382\/retro-scan-of-the-week-the-129-dollar-numeric-keypad","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> The $129 Dollar Numeric Keypad"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"white_caption\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/keypad_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/keypad_small.jpg\" alt=\"Kensington Macintosh ADB Numeric Keypad\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption_text\">Taking the top prize for most overpriced computer product ever is the &#8220;Kensington NoteBook KeyPad.&#8221;  I actually happen to own one of these, although I picked it up for free at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/204\" target=\"_blank\">hamfest<\/a>.  It&#8217;s quite honestly nothing special &#8212; just an external ADB keypad with a construction similar to any keyboard of the time.<\/p>\n<p>I pose this question to you, dear readers: is any numeric keypad worth $129?  Even in 1993?  Certainly the Kensington KeyPad&#8217;s exorbitant price put it in parity with Apple&#8217;s hyperexpensive products in the early 1990s.  But why would anyone buy a numeric keypad for the modern equivalent of $186?  I suspect lack of competition in the numeric Mac keypad market had something to do with it.<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From The Apple Catalog, Spring 1993 ]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><small><em>If you use this image on your site, please support &#8220;Retro Scan of the Week&#8221; by giving us obvious credit for the original scan and entry.  Thanks.<\/em><\/small><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking the top prize for most overpriced computer product ever is the &#8220;Kensington NoteBook KeyPad.&#8221; I actually happen to own one of these, although I picked it up for free at a hamfest. It&#8217;s quite honestly nothing special &#8212; just an external ADB keypad with a construction similar to any keyboard of the time. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16,40,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-computer-design","category-macintosh","category-retro-scan-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}