25 Jul
1998
25 Jul
'98
5:56 a.m.
Joe <rigdonj(a)intellistar.net> wrote (after John Rollins):
>Picked up a nice little HP Series 100 Model 120
45600A and a few hundred
You were lucky! Most people got stuck with a
chicklet keyboard on those.
You still see ads occasionally for people looking for standard keyboards.
"Chicklet" keyboard? What I've seen are two sizes of keyboard: one
not much wider than the terminal housing that has the QWERTY key
cluster with some function keys at the top and some compressed and
doubled-up keys, and one wide keyboard with the numeric keypad off to
the right.
The narrow keyboard is a bit of a pain to work with because of the
compromises made w/r/t key placement (e.g. the return key is
relatively small), but it's usable and has full-travel keys just like
the wide one.
-Frank McConnell