29 Oct
2007
29 Oct
'07
12:24 a.m.
On 29/10/07 02:32, "Ensor" <classiccmp at memory-alpha.org.uk> wrote:
Actually, the 400 keyboard was pretty good for a touch
keyboard....certainly
massively better than the Sinclair touch keyboards I'd been used to at the
time.
I didn't get hold of a 400 until a couple of years ago and I was really
surprised at how good it was for a membrane keyboard compared to the ZX81.
Whether this was down to the key spacing, the raised edge round each key or
the general sensitivity I haven't sat down and worked out yet :)
That said, my first upgrade to that machine was a real
keyboard! :-)
My second 400 came with a real keyboard, much better!
IKWYM about the ST keyboard, it was horrible.
Back then I was developing software for the ST, *ON* the ST, so I quickly
grew to loath that keyboard. The MegaST's keyboard was no different.
Now there's a thing. The ST/XE keyboard is a horrible rubber-based mashy
thing with awful feedback whereas both MegaST keyboards I have are proper
spring-based switch keyboards that I can easily touch type on and actually
enjoy using. Was there 2 different types of MegaST keyboard?
I can't comment on the ST Mac emulators since I've only ever seen one (sure
it had 'magic' in the name though) many years ago and the bloke who had it
wouldn't sell it to me, bah.
Cheers,
--
Adrian/Witchy
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