30 Jul
2013
30 Jul
'13
6:58 a.m.
On Jul 30, 2013, at 8:08 AM, "Alexandre Souza" <alexandre.tabajara at
gmail.com> wrote:
I guess this is why I am not a manufacturing mogul. It just appears obvious to me that if
you stick a $H!++y keyboard on a computer, 1040ST in this case, then people will not flock
to it for word processing and the like. (Boss, boss, I just bought TI-99/4's for the
entire typing pool!)
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)
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Enviado do meu Motorola PT550
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----- Original Message ----- From: "John Many Jars" <john at
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To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at
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Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 4:48 AM
Subject: Bad Keyboards
The worst keyboard I ever typed on was attached
to something called (I
think) an "Infoton" terminal.
Yeah, this:
http://terminals.classiccmp.org/wiki/index.php/File:Infoton_Vistar_GT.jpg
http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/infoton/Vistar_Technical_Users_Manua…
It was upper case only (which is horrible enough)... but the keyboard.
It was like typing on a wet sponge. I wish I could find one so I
could (gasp) take a sledgehammer to it. The ASU remote sites had a
large number of these, and a small number of VT100s, and everyone was
desperately trying to avoid them.
