deskthority

...and I saw some interesting things.

Over near the mainframe terminals and mag tape drives there was this giant kanji keyboard. The guy said that to select which kanji you wanted to type, you would have to use the numeric keypad to the left upon pressing the kanji key (his English wasn't great so I don't know if he meant before or after pressing the kanji key).
I also spied this thing next to the FM-8 and FM-7 they had on display. The guy said that it was a prototype ergonomic keyboard that was never released, and as you can see it kind of fits the shape of a hand, although my hands were much too big for it to be effective.
This one isn't really keyboard related but I thought it was too awesome not to mention. It's a PAXON PCT-50 MSX TV, which I've never seen before and am now desperately wanting.

Great post thanks for sharing!

Curiously, the kanji keyboard's normal keycaps are the same design used on older FANUC keyboards (albeit gloss instead of textured), and FANUC is a Fujitsu spin-off. I guess for whatever reason, FANUC didn't want to use either Fujitsu switches or Omron keycaps!

Fantastic! Many thanks for posting.