[Coco] Most expensive coco1

[Bill Pierce]

Myself as well.
My Coco 3 has an Eagle AT keyboard interface and when I aquired my Coco 1 & 2 a few months ago, I was all but lost on the Coco keyboard. The Coco 1 has "chicklet" keys and the Coco 2 has the "melted" keys. Niether of them come close to the feel of the Eagle. When I got this Coco 3 about 3 years ago, shortly after I recieved it, the foam "pads" under the contacts started to fall apart from dryrot. I disassemble the board and replaced the foam with 3/16th inch rubber from an old mouse pad and since the springs under the keys were losing their bounce, I replaced them with the springs from an old Coco keyboard. The keys now have about 3/32th inch of travel and have a firm but resilient bottom contact point. The layout is standard PC key layout but in a much tighter space. The number pad is directly beside the main keys with no space between. It takes a little getting used to, but ultimately, I like the layout.
There's a review and picture of the Eagle keyboard interface on p 92 of the Jan 1990 Rainbow.
Here's a pic from the review:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23059963/Pictures/Coco%20Pics/Eagle%20Keyboard.jpg

Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: Steven Hirsch <snhirsch at gmail.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Thu, Jan 16, 2014 7:18 am
Subject: Re: [Coco] Most expensive coco1


On Wed, 15 Jan 2014, Steve Batson wrote:

> I guess to each is own, i just find it easer to keep my hands on the 
> keys and find the keys as a touch typist with a normal keyboard which 
> most systems have. When you work on many systems as I have over the 
> years, having normal keyboards on everything makes it easier to move 
> from one system to another.

Amen.  Much as I like the Coco as a hobby platform, the keyboard is 
useless to me as a touch typist.  One of the best purchases I ever made 
was Mark's (Cloud-9) PS2 keyboard adapter.



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