A later //c+ that I had actually had a wonderful keyboard.Ĥ. Other keys just had no key travel at all - just bash 'em and they would register. The keys required differing levels of pressure to activate, and some of the suckers even made a crunching noise when you pressed 'em down. I read elsewhere here that the key switches were Alps, and the keyboards were not bad. Nope, I was stuck with that awful keyboard until I got a new VT-220 about 2 years later. Unfortunately, you were not able to pick up a new keyboard for $10 if you did not like the one you had. This keyboard's keys required firm, steady pressure all-the-way-down to register. Normally these were not particularly bad keyboards, but somehow I was 'blessed' with a personal-for-me-only fresh-out-of-the-box unit that had the keyboard from hell. The shift key you see in the picture was just for symbols - no upper/lower case capability on these charmers! Note the keys that you don't see much anymore: "Here Is", "Rubout", and my all-time favorite - WRU, which stands for "Who Are You?".Ģ. No NKRO here - you could not press the next key until the first key was back to it's starting position. The key then got a slight upwards pressure until it got back to its starting position. Key travel on these was impressive - 1/4" or more! The key feel was that of pushing a rod down until there was a soft "chunk" sound from inside the machine, which meant that the keystroke had been recognized.
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