I once remember seeing a cartoon that parodied this "keyboard". - showed it having just one massive key in the middle with *every* letter/keyword/graphic on it, surrounded by hundreds of little "shift" keys. J I never had one myself, I was an Atari man back then - 800XL (proper keys), still got it now.
Paul G. From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: 16 July 2010 17:52 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Friday diversion Looking through the magazines, I remember seeing such large modules. However, the Sinclair version was pretty small - about the size of (tax your memory again!) 3 DATs stacked. Phillip Partipilo <p...@psnet.com> wrote on 07/16/2010 11:48:48 AM: > Was this the expansion pack that was roughly the size of a VHS tape, > larger then the Sinclair itself? It's been a real long time since > I've touched one of those things, but I really remember how archaic > it was, playing around with it at the Boys&Girls club (some form of > after-school care, grew up in a single working parent household), > even compared to my home TRS80 COCO2 at the time J > > > Phillip Partipilo > Parametric Solutions Inc. > Jupiter, Florida > (561) 747-6107 > > > From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] > Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 11:20 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Friday diversion > > Exactly. Thee (membrane!) keyboard had standard characters, or > either the BASIC function names, or graphic shapes. The latter 2 > could be invoked by some keypress-combination with a function key orsome such. > > The expansion pack I had was 16KB. You had to supply your own rubber > band or tape to keep it from wobbling out of the connector tho' > > -sc > > From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] > Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 11:14 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Friday diversion > > > Mid-year 1983, a St Louis-based grocery store chain was giving away, > with the purchase of 3 tubes of toothpaste- > > 1. Sinclair/Timex Z-81 > 2. 8 Kb (or was it 16?)memory expansion > 3. Cassettes for a spread sheet, a database, and a backgammon game > > The Sinclair had its OS and BASIC on ROM. It also had BASIC > functions on the keys. That is, instead of typing "Poke", you > simply held one key and pushed the key that said "Poke". My kids > and I wpent many happy hours playing with this... > > "Steven M. Caesare" <scaes...@caesare.com> wrote on 07/16/2010 09:10:40 AM: > > > Man, I remember a bunch of these. > > > > http://www.informationtechnologyschools.org/blog/2010/30-old-pc-ads- > > that-will-blow-your-processor/ > > > > -sc > > > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
