Look man, Missile Command just doesn't translate well to a mouse, okay?

Nor does Marble Madness.

Nice. I'll wait for the $49.99 knock-off.

why would someone pay more for the keyboard and mouse than the entire system?? I believe these people need to do a little market research.

ha ha we have these style keyboards in the navy. There really isnt much room for mice on a submarine so trackballs are the shizzy.

"ha ha we have these style keyboards in the navy. There really isnt much room for mice on a submarine so trackballs are the shizzy."
Sounds like we get the "government" price with these too! Let's see, $429 for a hammer and $1200 for a keyboard. Yep sounds right.

But wait! Everything is all "rugged" and "sealed" and stuff for NEMA 4x protection! And it uses "switches" and stuff! Seriously, this is like a keyboard for dumb people.

Dee-you-em-dum!

I'll take a bargain basement $20 keyboard and throw it out when it breaks. Oh, and I'll be able to do that 60 times before I reach the same price point!

I am a big fan of trackballs and have been using a Logitech Marble Mouse for years. But this steel monstrosity makes no sense to me. Ergonomically the buttons are in the wrong place. Worse, attaching the ball to the keyboard makes it more difficult to position it for use.
At least I can hook it up with a serial cable, but where will I connect my Palm III dock?

ninjamurf

You got me beat on that whole Missile Command on a Sub thing.

Thank you for your service.

OH LOOK! Another device you won't be able to keep clean.

It's the Delorean of keyboards!! Well...minus the drugs of course.

Sure, twelve hundred bucks seems like a lot now, but just you wait until the Zombie Apocalypse rolls around and ole Bill in the next cubicle starts moaning for some brain pudding surprise! A wise investment, I say.

Pricey.
Shiny.
Cool.
Should be renamed an iBoard.

Tracking your balls across stainless steel? Doesn't that cold sensation make 'em shrivel?

I'm left handed. When will I see an appropriate version of this at my local Leftorium store?

twelve Benjis off your wallet sore,
which looks like it came off a Commodore,
i dont know what all the hype's for,
cos 70ish gizmos aren't hip anymore..

That bugger had better have a goddam computer built into it.

I'll use my 20 year old IBM Model M keyboard with real-sized keys and no windows key annoyances, and my grandchildren will throw it out when keyboards are replaced by plugging directly into your head.

Got two off Ebay for 25$ including shipping. The spare is in case someone nukes my house, and the first one is too hot to use.

It's a good thing people didn't see Stealth's Titanium keyboard for Space Shuttle use. It's got two extra zeros at the end of the price tag.

I can understand the high price as this thing is probably being made one at a time in a small shop. With labor rates and sourcing all the parts in small quantities the manufacturing cost on this thing is probably over $400. Making $1200 a sensible retail markup, which allows sales to distribution at $800.

Now for you and me what does that mean? Not a lot until the keys are all replaced by OLED screens and a hand massager is placed in the blank area under the track-ball.

Then when they put some gold foil on it and some diamonds they can raise the price to $300k and really sell it to people with (much) more money than brains.

WTF?

Who in their right mind with buy this POS at 1200 bucks? That's just insane, what's more worrying is the bank manager that gives such people loans to go off wanking their "entrepreneurial" spirit with such trite crap.

Silly folks, the reason it costs so much is that they have to tear apart a MacBook to make each one.

Anyway, now I can finally build my evil lair and take over the world with my expensive 70's-look user interface -- gotta have something to control my 'LASER' that cost me 'ONE MILLION DOLLARS' to build.

Now where'd my wife put that damn Persian cat...

Figures there would only be track "BALLS" on a navy ship...

But keeping with the retro feel... id like to remove the track ball and fit it to my retro logitech mouse... surely it would improve the DPI over my current laser mouse, right??

$20 keyboard, $1,180 Track Ball!