Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 15th Jun 2009 17:09 UTC
"There's no such thing as the perfect computer, and never has been. But in the personal computer's long and varied history, some computers have been decidedly less perfect than others. Many early PCs shipped with major design flaws that either sunk platforms outright or considerably slowed down their adoption by the public. Decades later, we can still learn from these multi-million dollar mistakes. By no means is the following list exhaustive; one could probably write about the flaws of every PC ever released. But when considering past design mistakes, these examples spring to my mind."
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RE: rubber chiclet keyboard die die die
by Doc Pain on Tue 16th Jun 2009 21:17
in reply to "rubber chiclet keyboard die die die"
Member since:2006-10-08
writing programs to paper and typing them back in on the rubber chiclet keyboard is character building, one painful unsteady character at a time.
You didn't use a robotron KC-87. :-) Look at the strange keyboard:
http://www.robotrontechnik.de/index.htm?/html/computer/kc_dresden.h...
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2008-08-25
I started out on the Mattel Aquarius after the school trashed a bunch of them to make way for Apple IIs.
writing programs to paper and typing them back in on the rubber chiclet keyboard is character building, one painful unsteady character at a time.