if you had the 16KB RAM pack attached (in the back) and pressed the keyboard too hard, the computer could wobble and momentarily disconnect from the RAM pack – all your code&data could be gone in an instant.
@foone@digipres.club @Loosf@yiff.life That and the Atari 400 are definitely worthy nominees, but my vote has to go to the TRS-80 Model 1 keyboard wwwittthouutt tttthhhee deeebouuuncccee ccccirrccuuiitt.
@foone@digipres.club @Loosf@yiff.life not a blister-board. But the switches in the ti99-4a at least the one I still have feel fucking awful even after i clean the hell out of them and re-lubbed them.
it took TWO MINUTES for someone (@Loosf@yiff.life) to nominate the keyboard I was thinking of
@foone@digipres.club @Loosf@yiff.life unsafe at any baud rate?
@foone@digipres.club @Loosf@yiff.life
if you had the 16KB RAM pack attached (in the back) and pressed the keyboard too hard, the computer could wobble and momentarily disconnect from the RAM pack – all your code&data could be gone in an instant.
@foone@digipres.club @Loosf@yiff.life Now you’re just harshing on the Pinto.
@foone@digipres.club @Loosf@yiff.life That and the Atari 400 are definitely worthy nominees, but my vote has to go to the TRS-80 Model 1 keyboard wwwittthouutt tttthhhee deeebouuuncccee ccccirrccuuiitt.
@foone@digipres.club @Loosf@yiff.life oh yeah. first computer I owned. that keyboard was so bad and eventually died.
@foone@digipres.club @Loosf@yiff.life not a blister-board. But the switches in the ti99-4a at least the one I still have feel fucking awful even after i clean the hell out of them and re-lubbed them.
@foone@digipres.club @Loosf@yiff.life Or this modern iteration of it.
Hits all the same notes:
@foone@digipres.club @Loosf@yiff.life To be fair, that’s actually the Sinclair C5 (not Ford Pinto) of keyboards. 🙂
@foone@digipres.club @Loosf@yiff.life Hey now that’s my childhood there