This enthusiast’s keyboard and trackball used to launch nuclear missiles

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There’s no telling what you’ll find on eBay—like an old keyboard and trackball originally dedicated to firing off nuclear missiles.

As detailed Tuesday by YouTube channel Pointless Tinkering , an enthusiast bought the keyboard off eBay simply because it “looked awesome” and had “some interesting buttons” saying things like “TRANSMIT, ” “ABORT, ” plus “INITIATE. ”

The keyboard and trackball were part of a larger control system for a nuclear missile silo command center. More specially, the peripherals were part of a console used to launch Minuteman III missiles in the ’80s as part associated with the US Air Force’s Rapid Execution and Combat Targeting (REACT) program.