[Coco] Is it me, or are chiclet keyboards coming back?

[Diego Barizo]

Just what I was telling my boss.... In the 80's nobody would have paid 
+$500 for a computer with the crappy keyboard almost all laptops come 
with...
I do have an old (400 MHz) IBM laptop with an almost decent keyboard, 
but still...
But I also remember typing LOGO programs in a CoCo 1 'till my fingers 
really hurt. I was really happy with my first CoCo 2 keyboard ;-)

Diego

Rogelio Perea wrote:
> For all the fuzz that many people threw against the original CoCo 
> chiclets
> keyboard, many of the modern day laptops and the kiosk PCs sport a 
> chiclets
> keyboard... so go figure this oddity of human behavior. Many of us 
> remember
> that the CoCo 1 was chastised to no end first because of the keyboard and
> then because of its text screen; all other PC makers had REAL 
> keyboards on
> their computers: C=64, TI99/4A, Atari 800, etc...
>
> If there's one keyboard I really had problems typing on, it is the 
> CoCo 1 F
> Board 'melted' keys keyboard... not enough travel and keys with a weird
> mushy feeling in their mechanical feedback. For my hands build, the 
> original
> chiclets keyboard is *the best*, nice separation making it harder to
> introduce typos... and I'm faster on those too. The later revised CoCo 
> 2 and
> in fact the CoCo 3 keyboard is also good.
>
> Today's laptop users have sacrificed typeability for thinness, the 
> keyboard
> that came with the Tandy 1400? *that's* a keyboard; the Model 100 and 
> 200 is
> also a good example of sensible portability.
>
>
> -=[ Rogelio ]=-
>