That is pretty horrible. But I recognize a few things the C-64 inherited that makes it not quite a monster. The graphical shapes on the keys, and the Run/Stop (without the companion Restore key). No British pound key though, that’s surprising. What is horrible is the tape drive, I didn’t know how bad that was until I finally got a disk drive.
it really does! This was the case with the grandchild of the Commodore Pet, the very popular Commodore 64. Check out all the extra characters on the SIDES of the keys:
So many ASCII sprites baked right into the hardware and OS.
I don’t know the show, but I know that’s an original Commodore PET computer with arguably the WORST keyboard in mass market computing history.
He’s a close up of this “war crime” of an atrocity.
Note. Later versions of this computer came out with a more normal Qwerty keyboard.
Finally, a dedicated clubs button.
Brb about to take my cribbage game to the next level
I like it.
The origin of the Preonic
Is it bad that I want one of those? It is so weird!
That is pretty horrible. But I recognize a few things the C-64 inherited that makes it not quite a monster. The graphical shapes on the keys, and the Run/Stop (without the companion Restore key). No British pound key though, that’s surprising. What is horrible is the tape drive, I didn’t know how bad that was until I finally got a disk drive.
Blister-key PCjr and the Timex-Sinclair 1000.
So you’re not a fan of ortho keyboards?
Wow, yeah, decisions were made… that is technically a keyboard.
That’s pretty rough in a lot of ways, but man would that make ASCII box-drawing easier.
it really does! This was the case with the grandchild of the Commodore Pet, the very popular Commodore 64. Check out all the extra characters on the SIDES of the keys:
So many ASCII sprites baked right into the hardware and OS.
VIC20 too! That was my first, 64 next.