On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, tim lindner wrote:
> > On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Roger Merchberger wrote:
> >
> >> Define "real" -- Admittedly, the CoCo1's chicklet keyboard sucked bigtime,
> >> but The CoCo2/3's keyboard is as good as anything made nowadays... (that's
> >
> > With one glaring exception: NO CONTROL KEY.
> >
> > What computer comes without a CONTROL key?
>
> Sellam's been dying to bring that up. Did you notice that "Control" key on
> that CoCo 3 of yours?
But I'm talking about the Coco1 and Coco2. It's amazing that they gained
enough of a following to merit the CoCo3, which finally did some things
right.
> Anyway I think most CoCo 1-2 terminal emulators use the Break key as a
> control key. Not very slick, but it worked.
Eh.
> What really sucked was the 32 column screen. I never bought one of the many
> 80 column cards, they were all serial based. Only useful under OS-9.
I thought that went without mentioning :)
> I'm curious, what experience have you had with OS-9?
None (but I've heard enough good things about it to trust that it was way
cool :)
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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