that if you lifted the lid up carelessly, you would pry the keyboard right off its screw mounts and pull them out of the case. Oopsie.
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Only a few thousand people remember that. It was one of the first major design fixes, the keyboard that shielded the encoder and didn’t jut.
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Thanks for the picture! Where was it taken?
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It’s here! https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apple_II_IMG_4214.jpg … Apparently taken at a Swiss museum.
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Thanks for sharing all of these details! I’m currently writing a book about (typewriter/computer) keyboards, so this is amazing.
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(There are some regional keyboards, e.g. in Hungary, that have a 0 on the left, but something tells me that Apple II is not Hungarian. :·) )
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Do you have a favourite keyboard? (Apple or otherwise?)
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I’m unlike most writers in that I am not picky about keyboards. I can type on anything, including iPad glass. Not a key switch bigot.
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But if I had to choose: the Apple Extended Keyboard II, hands down. Code named “Saratoga” after the aircraft carrier.pic.twitter.com/BAYCSPQt5R
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Re this, I’m looking forward to trying out this new (old) toypic.twitter.com/mDD1A9Jewa
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Ah, the Bondi Blue aesthetic, we hardly knew ye!
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