[Coco] Re: Re: Re: Top Coco games of All-time

[Kevin Diggs]

Hi,

	I think I have the same model deuce as you do, a
-3026. My "9" and "-" keys are ... flaky.

	Aren't all those sockets great.

					kevin

Charlie wrote:

>>Many times I've defended theorignal Coco "Chiclet" keyboard as the best

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> ever

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>>put on any Coco.  Easy to touch type, hard to "smear" two keys together,

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> and

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>>now you've reminded me.  That keyboard was RUGGED!

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>>After my son learned to play DoD, I just assumed the A, R, L, N, and B

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> keys

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>>would be toast within a week.  Nope, after a few months of that they were

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> still

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>>as good as ever.

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>>When my son later took formal computer keyboarding classes at night

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> school, I

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>>kidded him that thanks to Stone Giants and Wraiths, he already knew where

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> a

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>>few keys were :-)  --Mike K.

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> Yes! the coco keyboard is very tough. I remember playing DoD all day and

> slamming away at the keys when the action got going.

> My father would walk in the room and say "aren't you going to break that

> thing, hitting it like that?"

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> I was always a fan of the wierd low profile keyboard on my 16k coco2. I

> played a lot of DoD on that thing.

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> This also reminds me. The MC-10 keyboard seems to be tough as well. I wrote

> several basic games where you would have to beat the

> mc-10 in a race, by pressing A and space as fast as you could. It's amazing

> all this stuff still works for me as if it was new. :)

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> Charlie

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