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From: jim@uw-beaver.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Why are micro keyboards braindamaged?
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Date: Mon, 13-Jun-83 13:07:25 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 13 13:07:25 1983
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The most braindamaged keyboard I ever ran across on a micro is the one
on the Radio Shaft TRS-80 model 1.

Not only is it missing {}\|~` and even [], you generate lower case
letters by holding down the shift key!  Of course this doesn't bother
most people because the display won't do lower case anyway.  The lower
case letters are in the ROM and can be brought out by adding a $1
memory chip.

The keyboard is also quite useless until you add a debouncing program.
Fortunately the whole mess is programmable.  My guess is that it was
designed by hardware jocks who had never actually used a computer.