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That terrible PET keyboard was allegedly made of existing calculator key matrixes wedged together, as CBM was a calculator company beforehand. https://en.wikip
by white-flame 9y ago
That terrible PET keyboard was allegedly made of existing calculator key matrixes wedged together, as CBM was a calculator company beforehand.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PET_2001_Series-IMG_1724.JPG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PET_2001_Series-IMG_1724....
vs something like
http://www.oldcalculatormuseum.com/us1.html http://www.oldcalculatormuseum.com/us1.html
- vidarh 9y agoI seem to recall that they later profited from that supply chain by cutting costs of their proper keyboards too, as they knew suppliers who wanted to break into the computer parts market that they could get to accept really thin margins, whereas most other home computer manufacturers who wanted "real keyboards" went to established keyboards manufacturers that were used to supplying the higher margin business market. On the supply side their ability to cost-cut was even more legendary than their early designs...