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>Of course, no-one in their right mind would do this to run a second terminal, as the Atari ST had the worst keyboard since the ZX81 I hooked up an Oric-48k as
by Zenst 7y ago
>Of course, no-one in their right mind would do this to run a second terminal, as the Atari ST had the worst keyboard since the ZX81
I hooked up an Oric-48k as a terminal once, having owned an Atari ST, I'm kinda in agreement with you. The Atari Keyboard had a weird springy feel about it, had Atari made mattresses, they would probably of been the best in the World - based upon the spring-feel of their keyboard.
Though the Psion II I used with the serial adapter was the most funkiest at the time, ABC style calculator keyboard (still better than ST apart from layout). But it was portable and a dream. Though I still to this day and occasionally use my Psion 5mx with serial adapter cable.
- chiph 7y agoNow that you mention it - my 1040ST's keyboard was pretty springy, and you never were totally sure about whether it had registered your key hit. I never ran unix on it, but I wrote a VT100 emulator for it to connect to a multi-processor Xenix machine.
- tom_ 7y agoIt was very spongy indeed - but (when using the OS - so pretty much universal in GEM apps, and very common for TOS programs) there was a brief sound chip blip each time a keypress was registered. I for one never minded it. If the blip was there to compensate for the lack of feedback, it worked well.