[rescue] Wanted - 3B2

Lionel Peterson lionel4287 at verizon.net
Tue Jul 8 21:07:29 CDT 2008


>From: wa2egp at att.net
>Date: 2008/07/08 Tue PM 08:32:28 EDT
>To: The Rescue List <rescue at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [rescue] Wanted - 3B2

>7300 doesn't look nearly as cool :-)
>> 
>What, you don't think the Commodore PET look is cool? (remember, they had 
>*removeable* QWERTY keyboards, improving on the already amazing fixed, 
>> calculator keyboard[0] of the original PET)
>> 
>> http://www.corestack.com/machines/unixpc.html
>> 
>> Lionel
>> 
>[0] 
>http://www.pcworld.com/article/139100-
10/the_10_worst_pc_keyboards_of_all_time.h
>> tml
>
>Didn't the first PETs have an alphabetic keyboard not QWERTY?

I thought so, and initially said that, but I couldn't find a citation, so I 
backed off and limited myself to the non-typewriter QWERTY keyboard...

I think your right, but I couldn't document it.

Lionel



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