[Coco] PC World's 10 Worst PC Keyboards

[Arthur Flexser]

On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, Joel Ewy wrote:

> Rod Barnhart wrote:
> > In case anyone's interested, the MC-10 made PC World's "10 Worst PC
> > Keyboards of All Time."
> >
> > http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,139100-page,6-c,keyboards/article.html
> >
> >   
> That's a fun article.  Of course Commodore appears 3 times in that list
> (mentioning the C=64 and the Vic 20 in the same entry).  The keyboard on
> the Apple 2C wasn't all that nice either, but I guess it didn't sink to
> the depths of the T/S 1000.  They mention the (real) CoCo but don't dis
> the original CoCo's chicklet keyboard.  On the scale of chicklet
> keyboards, I guess the CoCo's isn't too bad.
> 
> JCE
> 

I always rather LIKED the CoCo's chicklet keyboard.  I had the feeling that the
real objection of many of those who were critical of it was that it didn't LOOK
like the keyboard of a serious machine and played into the perception of the
CoCo as a toy, which Tandy did little to discourage.  I found the keyboard
responsive and easy to type quickly on.  

Art