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From: jlw@ariel.UUCP (J.WOOD)
Newsgroups: net.micro.6809
Subject: Review of HJL-57COCO Keyboard
Message-ID: <487@ariel.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 13-Oct-83 08:19:50 EDT
Article-I.D.: ariel.487
Posted: Thu Oct 13 08:19:50 1983
Date-Received: Fri, 14-Oct-83 03:16:09 EDT
Organization: AT&T-ISL, Holmdel, NJ
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I have just installed a HJL-57 keyboard in my COCO.
I made the decision in comparison of the ads and reviews
in several magazines, esp. HOT COCO which had ads for
the HJL, the Micronix, and the Mark Data Products ones.

ORDERING
	HJL Products Inc.
	955 Buffalo Road
	PO Box 24954
	Rochester, NY 14624
	(716) 235-8358
	(24 Hours, 7 Days a week)
	Price: $79.95 + $2.00s&h

I ordered mine last Thursday after 5:00pm and received it
via UPS on Tuesday with an intervening Monday Holiday.

GOOD THINGS
Solid as a rock (Aluminum frame). N-key rollover. Good to excellent
feel. Sculptered keycaps and disked layout a la Selectric.  Good
instructions and simple installation. Worked first time. Bezel.
Four function keys, one latched.
Versions for both Pre-rev. F boards and rev. F.  Know your revision.

BAD THINGS
Only one so far,  QC missed and didn't catch that my unit was missing
the 'enter' keycap.  I called yesterday and they are going to mail
me a new one.  We'll have to see when it arrives.
One more so-so thing.  The layout is straight RS-COCO with the
four function keys, two each on either side of the space bar.
I'd have preferred a more standard layout.

OVERALL and COMPARISON
Overall this is a quality unit.
I prefer the position of the function keys to that of the
Micronix and the Mark Data has no extra keys.  N-key rollover
is a big plus; Micronix has this too.



					Joseph L. Wood, III
					AT&T Information Systems
					Laboratories, Holmdel
					(201) 834-3759
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