[Coco] CoCo4! 50% done!

[Richard Goedeken]

Gotta love it.  I'm typing on a 1992 model m over here. I bet not that many of
them have the keycaps rearranged in the dvorak layout though. :)

Richard

On 02/07/2014 02:57 PM, Steven Hirsch wrote:
> The canonical IBM keyboard, introduced with the MicroChannel PS/2 machines
> circa-1987.  They used a (at the time) proprietary and patented buckling
> spring arrangement to give a feel similar to the Selectric typewriter.
> 
> Considered noisy and "clacky" compared to the mush-a-matic keyboards currently
> in vogue, but much easier for a touch-typist to deal with.
> 
> The manufacturing rights to the Type M went to Lexmark when they were spun off
> from IBM and eventually were bought by Unicomp, who still manufacture them:
> 
> http://www.pckeyboard.com/
> 
> To keep up with the times, USB versions are now available.  But since I have a
> dozen of the PS/2 interface versions on a shelf in the garage, I stick to
> computers with that input port style.
> 
> Steve
> 
>