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

Bruce W. Calkins brucewcalkins at charter.net
Tue Jul 17 23:53:50 EDT 2007


I bought a surplus keyboard, desoldered and pulled the circuit board off and 
rewired it for my CoCo 1.  My typing speed improved considerably.  I did it 
all over when I wore that one out.  That second one is still on my first 
CoCo.

Bruce W.



> 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 




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