For keyboards,
I'd put it "middle of the road." It was better than the
chicklet keyboards of the CoCo1, prolly equalish (to maybe "barely better")
than the "not quite full travel" keyboard of the CoCo2, but not as nice as
the CoCo3 keyboards... and (obviously) no comparison whatsoever to the my
I'm having dffficulty understnading that. The CoCo 3 keyboard has a few
more keeys that the CoCo 2 one, but was otherwise the same mechanism,
plastic plungers over a membrane contact assembly, backed with a metal
plate. I wa puzzled as to why you feel the CoCo 3 had a much better
keyboard than the 2.
The early CoCo-2's had a different keyboard, with squarish flat keys, better
than the CoCo-1, but not as nice as later CoCo-2's and the CoCo-3. I have a
photo of the two side by side:
http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/coco/index.htm
If you look closely at the keys, you can see that the "Tandy" unit has
taller keys like the CoCo3, where the "TRS-80" unit has the earlier
flatter keys.
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