TRS-80 Model I

From: Uncle Roger <sinasohn_at_ricochet.net>
Date: Thu Oct 29 19:47:32 1998

At 12:34 PM 10/25/98 -0800, you wrote:
>When I was a kid I tho't that the keypad was incredibly lame because it
>didn't have a comma key. The only thing I would ever use it for would have
>been typing in numbers in DATA statements so it seems like a dumb idea.

Well, as someone who learned 10-key touch before I learned to type, the
idea of a comma on the keypad does not seem so obvious. More important was
the plus, minus, and period keys, for true data entry.



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