Tell me this thing above the keyboard of a 1985 Zenith Z-171 doesn’t quite remind you of something more modern…pic.twitter.com/eiktJQak50
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Tell me this thing above the keyboard of a 1985 Zenith Z-171 doesn’t quite remind you of something more modern…pic.twitter.com/eiktJQak50
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
Another fun one is the HP Integral PC (1985). Builtin printer, and has HP-UX UNIX in ROM instead of DOS.pic.twitter.com/gH8qr25NnL
Ah, yes, from that glorious time when “all-in-one” meant paper where typewriters used to have it!pic.twitter.com/Wm0iq7NoeV
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