Re: [chat] MTA wars

[Malcolm V <farkit@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 13:38, Michael Lake wrote:
> Amoungst the flames......
> 
> Jon Biddell wrote:
> > BTW, anyone have or know of any old Apricot PC's available (particularly
> > the XEN model)
> 
> Yes actually. Jill and I have one at home. It still works fine. Jill and 
> I are quite attached to it as it's a nice PC. Its got a really neat LCD 
> on the keyboard to show re-assigned keys (something like that).

That LCD screen still amazes me, it was a superb idea. (Imagine pre-gui
days when all "menus" are key driven. Your function keys are the top of
the menu for your application, and printed on the LCD above F1 is
"File", etc. When you press F1, the LCD is updated and now printed above
F1 is "Open", F2 is "Save",etc.)

I've longed for such a keyboard every since I first saw it (and
reprogrammed the display for my Father so all the words were printed
backwards and transposed) on the Apricot some 15 odd years ago. The only
other interface features that come close to its level of useful
innovation are the scroll wheel and optical mice.

Cheers,
Malcolm V.