if the IBM Model M is the Cadillac of keyboards, then what’s the Ford Pinto of keyboards?
it took TWO MINUTES for someone (@[email protected]) to nominate the keyboard I was thinking of
@[email protected] @[email protected] Now you’re just harshing on the Pinto.
@[email protected] @[email protected] To be fair, that’s actually the Sinclair C5 (not Ford Pinto) of keyboards. 🙂
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if you had the 16KB RAM pack attached (in the back) and pressed the keyboard too hard, the computer could wobble and momentarily disconnect from the RAM pack – all your code&data could be gone in an instant.
@[email protected] @[email protected] unsafe at any baud rate?
@[email protected] @[email protected] not a blister-board. But the switches in the ti99-4a at least the one I still have feel fucking awful even after i clean the hell out of them and re-lubbed them.
@[email protected] @[email protected] oh yeah. first computer I owned. that keyboard was so bad and eventually died.
@[email protected] @[email protected] That and the Atari 400 are definitely worthy nominees, but my vote has to go to the TRS-80 Model 1 keyboard wwwittthouutt tttthhhee deeebouuuncccee ccccirrccuuiitt.
@[email protected] @[email protected] Or this modern iteration of it.
Hits all the same notes:
- impossibility of touch typing
- lack of tactile feedback
- vagueness of active areas
- fingertip nerve damage
@[email protected] @[email protected] Hey now that’s my childhood there
@[email protected], these. They are made of hate.
@[email protected] that butterfly laptop keyboard that Apple put in laptops?
@[email protected] the Atari 400 keyboard gets you where you want to go, with finger cramps. At least it never exploded it when you accidentally rear-ended it.
@[email protected] early butterfly keyboard mechanisms on Macbooks, slight grime and it is not registering key presses
@[email protected] I want to say the 2017-era macbook pro keyboards, but, really, the Atari 400 took the cake for me. Such a bad keyboard.
@[email protected] Dell Quietkey keyboard
@[email protected] the Atari 400 keyboard.
@[email protected] i went through cheap microsoft and logitech keyboards about once a year, so … those?
@[email protected] the Dell keyboards that come in the box.
@[email protected] when I was a kid, there was a guy in my home town who’d dropped a V8 into a Pinto. It was an infamous sleeper that nobody ever wanted to race against twice. Tiny car, huge engine. Unsafe at any speed, but especially at extreme speeds. I know this wasn’t the assignment, but I can’t see “Pinto” without thinking of that ugly little rocket bean.
@[email protected] The original IBM chicklet keyboard. IBM recalled those, iirc
@[email protected] one of those rubber roll up water resistant keyboards
The PCjr infrared keyboard.
