Kinesis is a company based near Seattle that offers computer keyboards with ergonomic designs as alternatives to the traditional keyboard design. Most widely known among these are the contoured Advantage line, which features recessed keys in two bucket-like hollows to allow the user’s fingers to reach keys with less effort The Advantage 360 line was released in 2022 and is still insanely popular and challenging to get hold of.

This material is based on the high quality build your own CPU guide by Ben Eater. Ben cites the SAP-1 CPU architecture as the design inspiration for the CPU, which originated from the book Digital Computer Electonics by Albert Paul Malvino. The SAP (Simple As Possible) computer has been designed for you, the beginner. Its purpose, to introduce the crucial ideas behind a CPUs operation without burying you in unnecessary detail.