[Coco] Res: Re: Most expensive coco1

[Daniel Campos]

Here in Brazil both Codimex CD-6809 and LZ Color64 came out with keyboards with magnetic actuators (reed switches), but those were targeted at business and schools. CP-400 that was sold to the masses is the one which come with the worst keyboard, a chiclete type with high keys. The CoCo1 chiclete is several times better..

Daniel
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From: Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu>
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Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 18:58:39 
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Subject: Re: [Coco] Most expensive coco1

Count me also among those who were perfectly comfortable with the
initial CoCo 1 chiclet keyboard, despite being a pretty good touch
typist who learned typing on actual typewriters, back when dinosaurs
ruled the earth.  I think a lot of complaints were as much due to the
fact that it made the CoCo look more toylike than to any difficulty in
typing fast on those keyboards.  (I disliked the melted keyboard, but
did prefer the CoCo 3 one slightly over the chicklet one.)

Art

On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 6:49 PM, Rogelio Perea <os9dude at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed Jan 15 2014, Brian Blake wrote:
>
> The CoCo 1 arrived today. Pic is linked below.
>>
>> http://tandycoco.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=239
>>
>> I'll try to hook it up tomorrow to check functionality. The keyboard feels
>> awesome - great travel, smooth action; just has a quality feel too it. Had
>> Tandy seen fit to make a keyboard like the HJL from the start, the CoCo
>> might have had a tad more respect back in the day.
>>
>
> The foundation is there, a little TLC will go a long way.
>
> Had also an interest with those replacement keyboards back in the day, have
> to admit I was happy with the chiclets, to this day I find my self taught
> keyboarding abilities are more at ease on the early chiclets than in the
> later releases: the melted F board keys and then the CoCo 2 and 3 - the
> melted keys are the less friendly to my big hands.
>
> My eye on replacement keyboards was actually more on the number keypads
> once on the market, always thought that was the first thing to setup on the
> CoCo.
>
>
> RP
>
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