[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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