It’s no secret that I am a big fan of Severance, the Apple TV+ show that has 21 Emmy nominations this year. I made a fan project earlier in the year that generates Outie facts for your Innie.

After launching a teaser campaign back in April, Atomic Keyboard is finally taking pre-orders for their Severance-inspired keyboard just for Macrodata Refinement department users. The show based the MDR terminals on the Data General Dasher D2 terminal from 1977. So this new keyboard includes three layouts:

  1. “Innie” which is show-accurate, meaning no Escape, no Option, and no Control keys, and includes the trackball
  2. “Outie,” a 60% layout that includes modern modifier keys and the trackball
  3. “Dasher” which replicates the DG terminal layout

It’s not cheap. The final retail price will be $899, but they’re offering a pre-Kickstarter price of $599.

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