The olimex company just announced the: RVPC - a kit PC with a RISC-V CPU, and they say it'll cost US$1

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It will support PS/2 keyboards and VGA. Intended to be a learning platform for RISC-V coding, it's only got 2k of RAM. (I tried finding a 3rd party source for this announcement but I struck out, so I'm linking the actual olimex webpage. Not affiliated with them, just thought this looked neat.)

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Even at this price point isn't it more economic and sustainable to emulate a RISC-V device with already owned hardware. Especially since it's so low powered.

And an emulator doesn't require you to find a PS/2 keyboard.

You mean the agony of deciding which one to dig out of my bin of PS/2 keyboards?

I'm not going to say I definitely don't have a PS/2 keyboard somewhere in the basement, but that box got thrown away at least a decade ago.