• partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I don’t know the show, but I know that’s an original Commodore PET computer with arguably the WORST keyboard in mass market computing history.

    He’s a close up of this “war crime” of an atrocity.

    Note. Later versions of this computer came out with a more normal Qwerty keyboard.

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      That is pretty horrible. But I recognize a few things the C-64 inherited that makes it not quite a monster. The graphical shapes on the keys, and the Run/Stop (without the companion Restore key). No British pound key though, that’s surprising. What is horrible is the tape drive, I didn’t know how bad that was until I finally got a disk drive.

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      1 year ago

      Wow, yeah, decisions were made… that is technically a keyboard.

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      1 year ago

      That’s pretty rough in a lot of ways, but man would that make ASCII box-drawing easier.

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        it really does! This was the case with the grandchild of the Commodore Pet, the very popular Commodore 64. Check out all the extra characters on the SIDES of the keys:

        So many ASCII sprites baked right into the hardware and OS.