28 Aug
2004
28 Aug
'04
8:27 a.m.
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Roger Merchberger wrote:
No CONTROL key!?!?!?
3) Coco 2
Erm... no. The CoCo2 keyboard wasn't that bad, really. If this were my list, I'd replace that with the Atari 400. What
were they thinking: "Let's
take this keypad off of a microwave, stick it on a computer, and market
it!" ;-O
It goes in the same category as the lame ZX8x keyboards.
Dunno about those two, so I can't say, but due to
their size, the Tandy
Pocket computer series were all pretty bad (understandably...) but I
/think/ it was the PC-5 that was pretty much a portrait calculator w/a
non-qwerty microwave keypad on the right for a keyboard -- that would be my
vote...
Probably the best palmtop keyboard was on the Psion Series 5. You could
almost type on it as you would a PC keyboard. Too bad the action was so
stiff. Still, the Psion Series 5 gets my vote for best all-time palmtop
computer (32-bit GUI OS, touch screen, backlit, serial port, real
keyboard, 2 PC-Card slots, 8MB main memory, TCP/IP stack allows for web
browser and any other TCP/IP-based application, integrated high-level
scripting language, 16-bit stereo sound chip, more).
Second place goes to the Psion Series 3.
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