[Coco] Is it me, or are chiclet keyboards coming back?

[Steve Ostrom]

I never thought the keyboard design of the Coco 1 was bad.  I happily used 
it for many years.  What was bad was when the keys would begin to stick. 
Then it became a royal pain !!

-- Steve --


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rogelio Perea" <os9dude at gmail.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 9:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Is it me, or are chiclet keyboards coming back?


> For all the fuzz that many people threw against the original CoCo chiclets
> keyboard, many of the modern day laptops and the kiosk PCs sport a 
> chiclets
> keyboard... so go figure this oddity of human behavior. Many of us 
> remember
> that the CoCo 1 was chastised to no end first because of the keyboard and
> then because of its text screen; all other PC makers had REAL keyboards on
> their computers: C=64, TI99/4A, Atari 800, etc...
>
> If there's one keyboard I really had problems typing on, it is the CoCo 1 
> F
> Board 'melted' keys keyboard... not enough travel and keys with a weird
> mushy feeling in their mechanical feedback. For my hands build, the 
> original
> chiclets keyboard is *the best*, nice separation making it harder to
> introduce typos... and I'm faster on those too. The later revised CoCo 2 
> and
> in fact the CoCo 3 keyboard is also good.
>
> Today's laptop users have sacrificed typeability for thinness, the 
> keyboard
> that came with the Tandy 1400? *that's* a keyboard; the Model 100 and 200 
> is
> also a good example of sensible portability.
>
>
> -=[ Rogelio ]=-
>
>
> On 7/17/07, John Guin <johnguin at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Between the Mac notebooks (whichever the cheap ones are named nowadays)
>> and
>> now the Sony Vaio TZ, are chiclet style keyboards coming back?
>>
>> I thought the chiclet keyboard on the gray Cocos was hard to use, odd
>> looking and a big reason people went with other brands which had much
>> better
>> keyboards.  I also remember people raving about the original IBm 
>> keyboard.
>>
>> So did I miss some hidden attribute of a chiclet that makes them 
>> desirable
>> (again)?
>>
>> Just curious, and feel free to treat this as a rhetorical question,
>> John
>
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