QOTD: What's the Most Influential Hardware?
If you've been computing for a decade or longer, you'll know that there have been many companies that have come and go.
However, just because a company doesn't exist anymore, doesn't mean the device or devices it made didn't make a permanent and big impact to how we use computers today and what we use them for. Many of the companies that helped change the landscape of computing still exist today.
Things like, the mice, the joystick. Yes of course, the 3D accelerator--and we all know what company really set things in motion in that space! If you can't come up with a device, that revolutionized the computer, maybe you can come up with a device that changed the way you use a computer. Today's QOTD comes from Tom's Hardware reader xNEM3S1Sx.
The question of the day is: What is the most influential piece of hardware ever made?

How many lay people do you know can operate a computer using only the keyboard?
How many lay people do you know can operate a computer using only the keyboard?
Have the circuits not printed on pbc but just floating all around.
It is still used in tons of stuff.
On just the OS I can do pretty much the same with a KB than with a mouse. Things start getting challenging when you try to use apps as many don't have shortcuts for all the functions.
If you say that, then you obviously don't know about the floppy swapping BBSes of the 80's. Software piracy was big even before the internet.