• partial_accumen
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    231 year ago

    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.

      • @frunch
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        1 year ago

        Brb about to take my cribbage game to the next level

    • Rhaedas
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      31 year ago

      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.

    • @Mandarbmax
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      31 year ago

      Is it bad that I want one of those? It is so weird!

      • partial_accumen
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        51 year ago

        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.

        • @shalafi
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          21 year ago

          VIC20 too! That was my first, 64 next.

    • @turmacar
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      11 year ago

      So you’re not a fan of ortho keyboards?