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   DaveG to All   
   Re: Tandy BASIC [Was: Old Basic Question   
   09 Dec 05 20:39:23   
   
   XPost: alt.lang.basic   
   From: dave-ng@nospam.tld   
      
   Sometime on Fri, 09 Dec 2005 01:02:43 +0000, R Flowers scribbled:   
      
   > Was there ever a ergonomically worse computer that inspired such user   
   > loyalty and fanaticism? That keyboard made the CoCo I's "chiclet" keyboard   
   > look like a typist's dream by comparison. The machine's limitations seemed   
   > to bring out the best in developers, though, both software and hardware.   
      
   The next logical step up from the Atari 400?  ;-)   
      
   Having said that, the CoCO K/B was only a short step away from the PET2001 :-)   
      
   --   
   Dave   
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