On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 01:07:34PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 11:16:47AM -0800, David Brodbeck wrote: > > On Dec 10, 2007, at 11:13 AM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >> How about the Atari 800 (or was it the 400?) that had the bare > >> membrane. ugh. now that was crap! > > > > Fortunately I never had the displeasure of using one of those. I did have > > to use an Atari 800XL for a while, at one job. That one at least had real > > keys, although the touch wasn't any better than on a Commodore keyboard. > > I can remember typing in hundreds of lines of BASIC on that thing at > my buddy's house. Lucky for me, I had a C-64, so my own hacking was > not so impaired...
Anybody remember the Timex/Sinclair 1000? It has a pure membrane keyboard built-in. The whole box was about 8" square. BASIC keywords were given to each key for programming. 1 MHz Z-80 with 16 KB ram with, I think, a connection to an audio tape deck for storage. I did my first Z-80 assembly on that beast. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
