[xlii]

I can recommend them as I did get one as a gadget.

I don’t have a HUGE use for it, but it’s really well done, feels really sturdy and somewhat premium. It was amusing to learn (and re-learn on rare use) more advanced features and programming it.

Sure, one can do that with emulator but physicality adds to the fun.

[ilyt]

I also have DM-16L and I do get some reasonable use out of that, It's programmer's calculator so a bunch of bitwise operations are readily available and have buttons for directly switching modes.

[rbanffy]

This is something I realized playing with the C64 Maxi. It’s a full sized C64 replica (mine is a VIC 20) and feels very real, even though there is a small ARM board inside it. Physicality is a huge part of the retro experience and a lot of it is the keyboard (which uses a TTY layout).

I wish someone made modern keyboards with Amiga, Atari, Alto, Symbolics, Sun, or DEC LK layouts for use with emulated platforms.