30 Jul
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30 Jul
'13
1:23 p.m.
On Mon, 29 Jul 2013 11:25:29 -0500, Geoffrey Oltmans
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Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 11:25:29 -0500
From: Geoffrey Oltmans<oltmansg at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: My Atari 1040ST(FM) on YouTube
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All of the other examples so far I think (with the exception of the QL and
Apple IIc) are not quite as bad as the ST from the standpoint that they
don't really LOOK like "real" keyboards, whereas the ST's does, and
therefore you are even more disappointed with how bad it is.
Actually, it
wasn't that bad. The feel was horrible, but it was quite
reliable. I used mine as a freelance translator to translate several
fairly large books, as well as keeping my accounts on it and letting the
kids play games on it. I never had any problems with the keyboard.
/Jonas
30 Jul
30 Jul
1:50 p.m.
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Jonas Otter <jonas at otter.se> wrote:
Actually, it wasn't that bad. The feel was
horrible, but it was quite
reliable. I used mine as a freelance translator to translate several fairly
large books, as well as keeping my accounts on it and letting the kids play
games on it. I never had any problems with the keyboard.
I used to work in an Atari dealer/service center so I had my share of
typing on them as well. Apart from the mushy feel of the keyboard, I really
disliked how close together the tops of the keycaps were, which made it
really easy to hit an adjacent key inadvertently.
2:14 p.m.
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 2:23 PM, Jonas Otter <jonas at otter.se> wrote:
Actually, it wasn't that bad. The feel was
horrible, but it was quite
reliable. I used mine as a freelance translator to translate several fairly
large books, as well as keeping my accounts on it and letting the kids play
games on it. I never had any problems with the keyboard.
I'm somewhat surprised that relatively decent capacitive keyboards
weren't used for a lot of those low-cost systems, as they were less
expensive to make than just about keyboard other than a bare membrane.
Maybe they were tied up in patents or something.
I don't like capacitive keyboards as much as buckling-spring, since
for a capacitive keyboard the tactile feedback isn't necessarily
coupled with the electrical recognition, but generally they were
pretty good.
On the other hand, in the long term they have the foam disintegration problem.
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