Rumor has it that Vintage Computer Festival may have mentioned these words:
>On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
>
> > How about the absolutely WORST keyboards?
> >
> > 1) Sinclair ZX series
> > 2) Coco 1
> > 3) Coco 2
> > 4) Aquarius (my first)
> > 5) Original PET
>
>I forgot to include Coco 3.
If you forgot that, then you're forgetting a *lot* of other keyboards. The
CoCo3's keyboard was one of the better keyboards found on 8-bitters...
including my Atari 800.
Admittedly, comparing it to an IBM Model M (Which I use religiously) isn't
fair, but barring the Tandy 100/102/200 and some older IBM & Compaq
"laptops" the CoCo3 keyboard is better than what you can get "built-in"
nowadays. I could hit damn near 100wpm on it -- *not bad* for a keyboard.
(I can't do much over 60 on my Fujitsu laptop, or the dells floating around
here -- Even with an IBM butterfly keyboard, I topped out at 80-85... In
contrast, I've hit 110 wpm on my IBM Model Ms and my Tandy 200.)
How fast can *you* type on an Atari 400? ;-P
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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Received on Thu Aug 26 2004 - 12:37:31 BST