28 Sep
2007
28 Sep
'07
8:14 p.m.
--- Tony Duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
Agreed. Although I'm partial to the 84 key IBM AT
keyboard, and the Zenith Z100 keyboard.
-Ian
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 Color Computer 2's had not-great keyboards -
different than the CoCo 3 keyboards. They looked like
someone took a regular keyboard and melted it. The
keys were squat and had poor feel and short travel
distance. Late model CoCo 2's used the CoCo 3 style
keyboard.
IBM Model M or
the keyboard on my Tandy 200
lappytop.
Very little comes close to those :-)