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Hmm, no invoice received, though I am on the list...

Kishsaver please!

OK, put me down for one of those little QWERTYs.

OK so how much are we looking at for one of those?

Ugh dammit how did I not see this thread till now? Oh well.

Next time...

Yeah, this is getting more irresistible by the hour... o.O Red and black would look fantastic.

rindorbrot wrote:I'd prefer some arrow keys instead of "up" "down "right" "left", too.

I concur. The original Honeywell board we're referencing has them:

Just a heads-up: HONEY/FUNCTION contains both CUT and PASTE but not COPY. COPY was included in R3. Not sure if this is an oversight ( ) or a deliberate omission ( )

I like grey/orange as an idea, I already have pale Cherry DS with R3 grey/dark-grey/Moogle, plus red Esc/Return, which is kind of similar to the Honeywell scheme... would be nice to have some dark, ie. near-black, alphas. Also, I'll post this just because I can: http://www.hpmuseum.org/98xx/98303qs....

It was worse than a smart-phone, at least you don't have to type in all the programs again every time your smart-phone crashes ! (Don't get me started on the horrors of using cassette-tapes as 'storage' :cry: ) Haha yes, good old cassettes... having said that, in my own collection the ones that use...

Agreed. Imagine having to work for the rest of your life on a ZX81... possibly even worse than typing on a smartphone. Maybe.

Erm, OK...

http://usvsth3m.com/post/64759353855/th ... ectrum-one

Oooh they're nice.

http://www.diatec.co.jp/shop/det.php?prod_c=1476

Anybody remember Tente?

My oldest Lego kits are from the 70s... will post pics when I get round to it. My fave is the Eagle moon lander, and you have to build the men from bricks...

Oh wow! I've still got my Genius mouse from about 1986/7.

Here's my Filco TKL Linear R with a mixture of caps: R3 SP very dark grey F row R3 SP grey number row, symbols etc. Cherry DS off-white alphas Cherry DS beige and Moogle kit modifiers etc. Cherry DS black arrow keys SP DS red Esc & Enter http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3830/9646492536_27fd7232f2_b.jpg...

Commodore desk! Ha. Though I feel one thing you lack there is a vintage calculator...

"Fog" looks a lot like R3 alphas and vintage Cherry DS modifiers etc. I've had those on my Filco TKL for a while but recently changed to a different combo. Might have a photo somewhere.

@mr_a500: That is awesome. I love the numpad. Or hexpad, perhaps? Which would be even better. :) What's the keyboard on the left? Reminds me of one of the TRS-80s, though I know it isn't one. BTW, I have a phone like that in red... perhaps it's time to dig it out of the cupboard and install it in th...

IvanIvanovich wrote:Sounds like you're describing Renaissance.

Yep! That's the one. Seemed like an exercise in style>content. Stark contrast was hard to get used to.

Zardoz is great, for all the best reasons :lol: As for Silent Running, the attentive amongst us may notice that some of the special effect model shots were re-used in the original Battlestar Galactica series. BTW, I'd add Battlestar Galactica (original) to the list, if series are allowed. I think my...

Looks a little sad on the Speccy:
Or:
Really badly coded BASIC, but hey, it's the first one I've written in years:

Oh wow. Way back we had a school trip to the Media Museum in Bradford to make a 'news broadcast', badly scripted, terrible make-up, etc. I did the title sequence on my 128k Spectrum. It had 3D letters spinning towards the viewer and a rotating planet... took me many hours of programming, and I was d...

Oh, I'd love an 8-bit mode for this site...

I propose an "ESC" shirt. Red, with white text. Hey, or we could have running-away-keyboard-man shirts! I liked that little R3 guy.

Hmm, I've not seen that type of keypad on anything bigger than a calculator. My Casio FX 730P Pocket Computer has a membrane; the springy metal bubbles would not particularly be easy to type on, I think.

I'd be surprised if it were anything as complicated for the thickness as an Alps-style mechanism. I don't know when scissors became popular. It may even be just a stiff rubber dome of sorts... not seen any internals of the keyboard yet, only the main board. I've had stuff before which just used a co...

Back to keyboards, there was the Sord M5 from around 1983/4 or so, which had flat keys, again at least visually like the recent Apple boards. Though I don't know what technology was under the Sord's keys a contemporary review I have here says it is "reminiscent of the Spectrum's but with a much bett...

Ah, I got into conversation with one of my previous students about old tech once, and he told me he'd recently thrown away his Microtan. I wept a little inside. It would have looked good in my study... OK, so I'm going a little off-topic here, but I sometimes wonder if Tangerine CS were related in s...