Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site uw-beaver Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!floyd!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!jim From: jim@uw-beaver.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: Why are micro keyboards braindamaged? Message-ID: <668@uw-beaver> Date: Mon, 13-Jun-83 13:07:25 EDT Article-I.D.: uw-beave.668 Posted: Mon Jun 13 13:07:25 1983 Date-Received: Wed, 15-Jun-83 14:05:05 EDT References: <403@ritcv.UUCP> Organization: U of Washington Computer Science Lines: 12 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.