F&*#ing chicklet keyboards (was Re: Retro Atari 400 looking Keyboard)

----- Original Message ----- Message: 13 Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 15:49:52 -0400 From: Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> Subject: Re: F&*#ing chicklet keyboards (was Re: Retro Atari 400 looking Keyboard) To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Message-ID: <BANLkTi=-0VR2fJMZKd-xyO66CLDr2ScRCw at mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Some folks didn't even wait. Some paid over $100 for an external "full-sized" keyboard. I bought a blue-bezel chiclet PET with the internal cable from Skyles Electric Works for the external keyboard (probably long since separated). <snip> Now (largely because issues of practicality are irrelevant), the price of a 1977/1978 chiclet-keyboard PET is several times that of a 1978 Graphic or Business-keyboard PET. -ethan ----- Reply ----- There was an upgrade kit available from Commodore, consisting of a replacement upper case half with the new Graphic keyboard, a new black decal and matching black monitor bezel, and an optional new external cassette deck to replace the internal missing-the-corner unit. I upgraded mine and also replaced the white screen with a green tube; glad now I kept the original parts for the day I sell it... m