if the IBM Model M is the Cadillac of keyboards, then what’s the Ford Pinto of keyboards?

    • Darryl Ramm@hachyderm.io
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      10 months ago

      @foone@digipres.club @Loosf@yiff.life To be fair, that’s actually the Sinclair C5 (not Ford Pinto) of keyboards. 🙂

    • Ray C. Keith@techhub.social
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      10 months ago

      @foone@digipres.club @Loosf@yiff.life

      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.

    • sleepy@mastodon.madhouse.org
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      10 months ago

      @foone@digipres.club @Loosf@yiff.life 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.

    • Krux@infosec.exchange
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      10 months ago

      @foone@digipres.club @Loosf@yiff.life oh yeah. first computer I owned. that keyboard was so bad and eventually died.

    • Jeff C@mastodon.online
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      10 months ago

      @foone@digipres.club @Loosf@yiff.life 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.

    • Bruce Preston@mastodon.org.uk
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      10 months ago

      @foone@digipres.club @Loosf@yiff.life 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