5 Mar
2007
5 Mar
'07
8:55 a.m.
Adrian Graham wrote:
VT220 (well, OK, the LK201 keyboard :p)
VT78
HP86 (and possibly HP85 too)
Microcolour Graphics ANSI terminals
ICL DRS20 and DRS50
MIMI 802 and 803
Torch Communicator (bright red and blue function keys)
ICL One-per-desk (see also Merlin Tonto)
TRS80 model 2 and 16
Sharp MZ80K and MZ700
Plus some British Telecom terms that are awash with different coloured keys
We've got some Cifer terminals with coloured keys too; I've got a photo of
them but don't have a model number handy right now.
(From someone else's post) I'm pretty sure the Archimedes 3010 was the one
with the green keys; the 3020 used red.
Intertec Superbrains and Enterprise 64/128 systems haven't been mentioned yet
I don't think.
Sinclair ZX80? (OK, so they're all blue :)
What about big iron - various PDP8, PDP11, Marconi TAC etc.? Do console
switches count as "keytops"?
What about early electronic calculators - IME86 etc.? Lots of those used
colours for various key functions. Stretching it a bit to call them computers,
though (at least for the earlier machines - I'm with Tony in that some of HP's
"calculators" were far more like general-purpose computers)
cheers
Jules