@foone@digipres.club @Loosf@yiff.life That and the Atari 400 are definitely worthy nominees, but my vote has to go to the TRS-80 Model 1 keyboard wwwittthouutt tttthhhee deeebouuuncccee ccccirrccuuiitt.
if you had the 16KB RAM pack attached (in the back) and pressed the keyboard too hard, the computer could wobble and momentarily disconnect from the RAM pack – all your code&data could be gone in an instant.
@foone@digipres.club @Loosf@yiff.life not a blister-board. But the switches in the ti99-4a at least the one I still have feel fucking awful even after i clean the hell out of them and re-lubbed them.
it took TWO MINUTES for someone (@Loosf@yiff.life) to nominate the keyboard I was thinking of
@foone@digipres.club @Loosf@yiff.life Now you’re just harshing on the Pinto.
@foone@digipres.club @Loosf@yiff.life unsafe at any baud rate?
@foone@digipres.club @Loosf@yiff.life To be fair, that’s actually the Sinclair C5 (not Ford Pinto) of keyboards. 🙂
@foone@digipres.club @Loosf@yiff.life Or this modern iteration of it.
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@foone@digipres.club @Loosf@yiff.life That and the Atari 400 are definitely worthy nominees, but my vote has to go to the TRS-80 Model 1 keyboard wwwittthouutt tttthhhee deeebouuuncccee ccccirrccuuiitt.
@foone@digipres.club @Loosf@yiff.life
if you had the 16KB RAM pack attached (in the back) and pressed the keyboard too hard, the computer could wobble and momentarily disconnect from the RAM pack – all your code&data could be gone in an instant.
@foone@digipres.club @Loosf@yiff.life oh yeah. first computer I owned. that keyboard was so bad and eventually died.
@foone@digipres.club @Loosf@yiff.life not a blister-board. But the switches in the ti99-4a at least the one I still have feel fucking awful even after i clean the hell out of them and re-lubbed them.
@foone@digipres.club @Loosf@yiff.life Hey now that’s my childhood there