RE: [chat] MTA wars

["Jon Biddell" <jon@xxxxxxxxx>]

-=>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.

The LCD screen (I think 4 function keys, with touch keys !!) was a
fantastic idea - we (Department of Agriculture) had it reprogrammed
depending on what mode of Wordstar you were in - or the terminal program
we used to access the Prime 9955....  An utterly fantastic idea, and
programmed with ESC sequences, as I remember...

Seriously - if anyone still has a working XEN model, or the later
Aprocot XI (with a hard drive instead of twin floppies), I am seriously
interested in getting one to use as a Linux box.

Jon