occasional brief-but-powerful bouts of nostalgia for the era of computers that lived beneath their built-in keyboards, needing only power and monitor ports.

some deep conceptual shift in thinking of "the computer" as being the keyboard, ie the input interface, ie the means of text entry. this is always what i imagined a cyberpunk hacker's "deck" was.

part of the perceived coolness might be the analogy of computer : video display :: guitar : amp...
some cool-ass name like the Ono-Sendai Cyberspace 7, early 80s 8-bit micro design sensibility but ridiculously capable, dangerous even, the only machine you'd ever need slung across your back as your roam the Sprawl. https://mastodon.social/media/C4DrlHZ7qO5P_ti1U5o