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After squeezing all the potential I could off my VIC-20 (and there was way more than meets the eye), I bought a 2nd hand Atari 400 which was fitted with an actu
by placebo 9y ago
After squeezing all the potential I could off my VIC-20 (and there was way more than meets the eye), I bought a 2nd hand Atari 400 which was fitted with an actual keyboard. Never asked them how they did it and never bothered to check if this was something you could add for a price or whether it was a home-made hack by the guy I bought it from - anyway, many fond memories of endless hours of gaming, though all those gaming hours meant that I developed and experimented on it far less than the previous VIC-20 ... :)
- protomyth 9y agoThere were keyboard kits you could buy. I ended up buying an Atari 130XE instead since I didn’t have the money earlier. Dad bought me a 48k kit for the 400 which required some soldering. The Sinclair computers (sold under Timex in the US) had membrane keyboards also, but had really cheap and easy to install full keyboard kits. Sinclair doesn’t get enough credit as a computer pioneer.