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Could have sworn that Commodore started out making typewriters, so they should know how to do keyboards (and the value of them).
by digi_owl 9y ago
Could have sworn that Commodore started out making typewriters, so they should know how to do keyboards (and the value of them).
- tyingq 9y agoIt was calculators, not typewriters, but your point stands for the same reasons.
- digi_owl 9y ago> The company that would become Commodore Business Machines, Inc. was founded in 1954[3] in Toronto as the _Commodore Portable Typewriter Company_ by Polish immigrant and Auschwitz survivor Jack Tramiel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_International https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_International
- vidarh 9y agoI don't think 1950's manual/mechanic typewriters were particularly good sources for electronic keyboard designs, and I'm pretty sure the Commodore branded typewriters were mechanical designs like this one [1] that still dominated in the 50's (there were certainly electric typewriters available, but that market was mostly dominated by IBM and Remington Rand). [1] http://www.zimmers.net/cbmpics/atypewriters.html http://www.zimmers.net/cbmpics/atypewriters.html