Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!unixland!asgardia From: asgardia@unixland.uucp (Craig Rothman) Subject: Re: 1200xl - remember that? Message-ID: Sender: bbs@unixland.natick.ma.us (Waffle BBS) Organization: The Think_Tank BBS & Public-Access Unix References: <676362087.11@egsgate.FidoNet.Org> Date: Wed, 12 Jun 91 01:42:29 EDT Tehn.Chin@f98.n250.z1.FidoNet.Org (Tehn Chin) writes: > > I tend to disagree with the keyboard issue. I think that the nicest > keyboard of the Atari 8-bit series would be the original Atari 800 computers. > Beats the pants of the current crop of ST computers' keyboard. > > Tehn Yit Chin > s882854@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU > I have an 800, an 800xl, and a 1200xl and while I think the 800 had a nice keyboard to it, the "feel" and lighness of the 1200xl'S board is awesome. Nice and springy.. I miss it now that I use an 800xl. I needed to switch because i got an MIO. (also put in Rambo!). I think theres an even better keyboard than the 1200xl. I read somewhere about putting an IBM keyboard on an atari... THat would be great.. (probably cost an arm..).