30 Jul
2013
30 Jul
'13
7:05 a.m.
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 8:58 AM, BE Arnold <bearnold at outlook.com> wrote:
I looked at Benj's slideshow and had forgotten
about the PCjr's blank
keycaps. It's actually an ingenious idea, now instead of 93(whatever)
separate keycap parts to make and stock you have a dozen or so. Great idea.
On paper. For bean counters. Once again, didn't anyone at IBM actually use
the darn thing? I bet they had a prototype Model M wired up to it so they
wouldn't have to use the crappy shipping keyboard. I know that kind of
thing has happened more than once at other companies. (Including the one I
worked for back then)
This is a good point. You would think in a computer company that the
designers would be somewhat personally sensitive to the quality of the
keyboard and raise flags. Maybe they did.