WORST keyboards ever (was Re: Best keyboards you've used ever!)

From: Tony Duell <ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
Date: Sat Aug 28 18:02:11 2004

> >3) Coco 2
>
> Erm... no. The CoCo2 keyboard wasn't that bad, really. If this were my

It was a membrane with proper keys on top. Not brilliant, but as you
said, it was by no means the worst.

> list, I'd replace that with the Atari 400. What were they thinking: "Let's
> take this keypad off of a microwave, stick it on a computer, and market
> it!" ;-O

Although I did once find a use for an Atari 400 keyboard. It had no
keycaps to get lost of get stolen. I put it on my college room door when
I was nan undergraduate and linked it to a box of electronics consisting
of a keyboard encoder and a text-to-speech board (CTS256 and SPO256
based, of course). This was linked to a 'spare' serial port on my CoCo 2
so that people could log in an leave me messages. I set up an account
called 'message' with no password where the 'shell' was the message
program which asked for your name and the message, then recorded them,
along with the time and date, to disk.

-tony
Received on Sat Aug 28 2004 - 18:02:11 BST