This is the story of one person’s desire to have the venerable trackpoint in their new keyboard. [Klapse] loves a Lenovo old-style non-chicklet keyboard, so, despite the cost, five were ordered.

[Frank Adams] liked the keyboard on his Lenovo ThinkPad T61 so much that he decided to design an adapter so he could use it over USB with the Teensy microcontroller. He got the Trackpoint working ...

Computer scientist Ted Selker ... is the time it takes to shift from the keyboard to the mouse. Nowadays, trackpads are the norm on laptops. While TrackPoint technology still exists, there ...