Commodore PET Keys – Series 2001 Edition
masswerk.at
Commodore PET Keys – Series 2001 Edition
1–10 of 14 posts
Re: Commodore PET Keys – Series 2001 Edition
#2A gloriously chicletty physical keyboard, up there with the "dead men's fingers" feel of the ZX Spectrum. Just typing on it made you feel like you were in some brutally-constructed space pirate's navigation pod.
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Commodore_PET_keyb...
Re: Commodore PET Keys – Series 2001 Edition
#3Man, I hated those chiclet monstrosities.
Fortunately, I had the 2001-N, with the real keyboard and green screen.
Re: Commodore PET Keys – Series 2001 Edition
#4Non staggered keyboard layout was ahead of it's time. Too bad it didn't stick around.
Re: Commodore PET Keys – Series 2001 Edition
#5Non staggered keyboard layout was ahead of it's time. Too bad it didn't stick around.
it still is around or is coming back. I recently saw a laptop with that kind of layout and was confused. it wasn't a niche shop either.
Re: Commodore PET Keys – Series 2001 Edition
#6Man, I miss those tape drives and a good game of Snake!
Re: Commodore PET Keys – Series 2001 Edition
#7A gloriously chicletty physical keyboard, up there with the "dead men's fingers" feel of the ZX Spectrum. Just typing on it made you feel like you were in some brutally-constructed space pirate's navigation pod. https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Commodore_PET_keyb...
Everyone remembers the PET for its iconic industrial design and chiclet keyboards but mustn't forget the integrated "mass storage" cassette tape player and recorder visible in the other images on that page.
I had a whole supply of cassette tapes that I bought somewhere with just 6 minutes of tape on the spools, for saving and loading of programs for the PET.
Re: Commodore PET Keys – Series 2001 Edition
#8Non staggered keyboard layout was ahead of it's time. Too bad it didn't stick around.
it still is around or is coming back. I recently saw a laptop with that kind of layout and was confused. it wasn't a niche shop either.
Do you recall which?
The only thing which comes to mind with "laptop" and "ortholinear" is MNT Pocket Reform. https://mntre.com/media/reform_md/2022-06-20-introducing-mnt...
Re: Commodore PET Keys – Series 2001 Edition
#9Re: Commodore PET Keys – Series 2001 Edition
#10The original PET keyboard was a PITA to use, but it was nonetheless tremendously cool in its day mainly because of all the graphics symbols. It was the emoji keyboard of the time, except that the PET's symbols were composable in two dimensions to make awesome-looking (by the standards of the day) pictures. The integrated B&W CRT display was crisp and clean, because it was a direct connect and didn't have an RF modulator (which you needed to connect most computers of the day to a TV set). It resembled the Macintosh more than is commonly acknowledged.
Life was simpler then. Sometimes I miss those days.