{"id":735,"date":"2014-12-11T12:08:33","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T12:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.keyboardco.com\/blog\/?p=735"},"modified":"2016-12-19T13:50:12","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T13:50:12","slug":"tribute-to-a-pioneer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thekeyboardco.com\/blog\/index.php\/2014\/12\/tribute-to-a-pioneer\/","title":{"rendered":"Tribute to a pioneer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maltron.com\/general-info\/maltron-history\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-736\" alt=\"stephen_h_200x301\" src=\"\/\/www.keyboardco.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/stephen_h_200x301.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thekeyboardco.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/stephen_h_200x301.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.thekeyboardco.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/stephen_h_200x301-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.thekeyboardco.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/stephen_h_200x301-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.thekeyboardco.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/stephen_h_200x301-150x225.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Ladies and Gentlemen.<\/p>\n<p>This week we learned of the death of Stephen Hobday, at the age of 98. Stephen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maltron.com\/general-info\/maltron-history\">founded PCD Maltron Keyboards Ltd<\/a> and designed the Maltron keyboard &#8211; much imitated but never bettered. He will be remembered as the man who did more to advance keyboard ergonomics than any other, and at a time when most people hadn&#8217;t woken up to the problem, he was a true visionary.<\/p>\n<p>We at The Keyboard Company worked closely with Stephen and Maltron for over 20 years. He was always a pleasure to deal with. As inventor, or entrepreneur, he was always a gentleman.<\/p>\n<p>On behalf of The Keyboard Company I would like to pay tribute to a great man and pass our Best Wishes to his family. PCD Maltron will continue Stephen&#8217;s legacy in the safe hands of Peter, his son.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ladies and Gentlemen. This week we learned of the death of Stephen Hobday, at the age of 98. Stephen founded PCD Maltron Keyboards Ltd and designed the Maltron keyboard &#8211; much imitated but never bettered. He will be remembered as &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thekeyboardco.com\/blog\/index.php\/2014\/12\/tribute-to-a-pioneer\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tribute to a pioneer<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[61],"class_list":["post-735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-maltron"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thekeyboardco.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thekeyboardco.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thekeyboardco.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thekeyboardco.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thekeyboardco.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thekeyboardco.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1412,"href":"https:\/\/www.thekeyboardco.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions\/1412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thekeyboardco.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thekeyboardco.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thekeyboardco.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}