From a review in InfoWorld… “less convenient than [a usual] keyboard because (…) the function keys are touch-sensitive panels rather than mechanical keys than move.” That’s March 3, 1986.pic.twitter.com/ifKPUWh2iX
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From a review in InfoWorld… “less convenient than [a usual] keyboard because (…) the function keys are touch-sensitive panels rather than mechanical keys than move.” That’s March 3, 1986.pic.twitter.com/ifKPUWh2iX
There was also this even earlier fascinating machine, called Gavilan SC, that also had a little trackpad *above* the keyboard. You could even extend it by adding a printer in the back. And its Enter was the only Enter I’ve seen split into two keys to allow for a numeric keypad.pic.twitter.com/Xpa9FIU8FX
Going back to the Zenith, I like that the instruction manual still calls the keyboard a “typewriter block” and explains that keys auto-repeat. They’re also upselling the “Touch Bar” just like Apple tries to. And you should know Caps Lock is not Shift Lock!pic.twitter.com/aWnhPYseh6
Guess what happened to the Z-171? It was replaced by Z-181, and the flat keys were replaced by real ones.pic.twitter.com/XU1A1v9H9X
*stares at the camera and then in the general direction of Cupertino*
It opens an internal calculator app, AFAIK. I don’t know if that app was built into BIOS, or what. The main keyboard has extra legends for it.
I remember a handful of manufacturers trying that with their keyboards instead of conventional keys. I also remember reviewers tended to be fairly scathing about them.
Yeah, membrane keyboards were the line we seemingly decided never to cross after ZX80/81, Atari 400, and so on.
Those are early prototype logos for the since-outmoded functions SLICE OF PIE, LUGGAGE HANDLE, WINKING BUCKETHEAD, and TINY MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS EMBEDDED IN A LARGER MATHEMATICAL OPERATOR
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