18 May
2002
18 May
'02
9:31 a.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
Pity the key membrane for the function keys on the
Apricot is almost
always dead...
You're way ahead of me here, Tony! Yes, my Apricot key membrane
is dead. And so are the ones on my Sinclair Spectrums, before anyone
asks...
The E&S uses a pair of those HP LED
'starburst' displays (I forget
exactly which ones, maybe 1414s) for each key. And IIRC there are 12
function keys on the keyboard.
Sounds great! It'll light up like a Christmas tree!
There's also the twiddlebox (8 shaft encoders with
knobs which you use to
pan/rotate/zoom the image on the display), again with 8 character LED
displays to label each knob.
I saw a dialbox like that for a Sun at Mendelson's in Dayton, and
kicked myself all the way home for not buying it. That, and the
IBM PS/2 Model 25.
--
John Honniball
coredump(a)gifford.co.uk