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Re: The C64 is crap!

From Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.cbm
Subject Re: The C64 is crap!
Date 2016-01-15 13:11 +1300
Organization Aioe.org NNTP Server
Message-ID <150120161311157614%YourName@YourISP.com> (permalink)
References (1 earlier) <548573327@f18.n116.z1.fidonet.org> <130120161817149914%YourName@YourISP.com> <87ziw95b4b.fsf@usenet.ankman.de> <140120161339057335%YourName@YourISP.com> <87vb6v241c.fsf@usenet.ankman.de>

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In article <87vb6v241c.fsf@usenet.ankman.de>, Andreas Kohlbach
<janrat.9.ankman@spamgourmet.net> wrote:
> Your Name wrote on 13. January 2016:
> > In article <87ziw95b4b.fsf@usenet.ankman.de>, Andreas Kohlbach
> > <janrat.9.ankman@spamgourmet.net> wrote:
> >> 
> >> Wasn't there a certain key to press that it would print the key you
> >> actually type on the screen?
> >
> > Possibly - I really couldn't be bothered playing with the crappy things
> > long enough to find out / remember. The commands were printed on the
> > "keys" themselves though.
> 
> Yep, I once saw it. I was amazed when I visited the UK in 1986 with other
> students and saw the kids of the host family had one. Had no idea why
> words are printed on the keys.
<snip>

Yep. It wasn't possible to simply type "I" and "F" for the IF
statement, you were *forced* to press Shift-Function-M (or whatever the
key combination was). That silliness and the ridiculously bad
"keyboards" (flat membrane keyboards on the ZX80 and ZX81, and small
rubberised keys on the Spectrum) made trying to program the toys a task
in futility and stupidity.

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The C64 is crap! "Harald Habenichts" <po@p.o> - 2016-01-12 22:28 +0100
  Re: The C64 is crap! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-01-13 13:17 +1300
    Re: The C64 is crap! removemefirst.Robert.Wolfe@f18.n116.z1.fidonet.org (Robert Wolfe) - 2016-01-12 20:33 +1200
      Re: The C64 is crap! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-01-13 18:17 +1300
        Re: The C64 is crap! Andreas Kohlbach <janrat.9.ankman@spamgourmet.net> - 2016-01-13 18:10 -0500
          Re: The C64 is crap! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-01-14 13:39 +1300
            Re: The C64 is crap! Andreas Kohlbach <janrat.9.ankman@spamgourmet.net> - 2016-01-14 17:24 -0500
              Re: The C64 is crap! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-01-15 13:11 +1300
                Re: The C64 is crap! aowen10@mail.bbk.ac.uk - 2016-01-15 08:58 -0800
                Re: The C64 is crap! Andreas Kohlbach <janrat.9.ankman@spamgourmet.net> - 2016-01-15 16:05 -0500
                Re: The C64 is crap! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-01-16 12:35 +1300
  Re: The C64 is crap! AndyW <Andy@nojunqmail.com> - 2016-01-13 07:32 +0000
    Re: The C64 is crap! "Brian-Gaff" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2016-01-14 08:36 +0000
  Re: The C64 is crap! Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2016-01-13 10:09 +0100
    Re: The C64 is crap! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-01-14 13:42 +1300
    Re: The C64 is crap! "Brian-Gaff" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2016-01-14 08:37 +0000
  Re: The C64 is crap! Harry Potter <rose.joseph12@yahoo.com> - 2016-01-13 03:44 -0800
    Re: The C64 is crap! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-01-14 10:33 +1300
  Re: The C64 is crap! Clocky <notgonna@happen.com> - 2016-01-14 06:10 +0800
  Re: The C64 is crap! "Brian-Gaff" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2016-01-14 08:35 +0000
    Re: The C64 is crap! Guesser <alistair@zxnet.co.uk> - 2016-01-14 15:24 +0000
  Re: The C64 is crap! Jan van den Broek <fortytwo@xs4all.nl> - 2016-01-21 22:31 +0100
    Re: The C64 is crap! Andreas Kohlbach <janrat.9.ankman@spamgourmet.net> - 2016-01-21 18:05 -0500
      Re: The C64 is crap! removemefirst.Drew.Klenotic@f1701.n2215.z1.fidonet.org (Drew Klenotic) - 2016-01-22 20:42 +1200
        Re: The C64 is crap! Andreas Kohlbach <janrat.9.ankman@spamgourmet.net> - 2016-01-23 15:21 -0500
          Re: The C64 is crap! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-01-24 10:06 +1300
          Re: The C64 is crap! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-01-24 10:08 +1300
            Re: The C64 is crap! Andreas Kohlbach <janrat.9.ankman@spamgourmet.net> - 2016-01-24 18:10 -0500
              Re: The C64 is crap! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-01-25 14:09 +1300
                Re: The C64 is crap! Dombo <dombo@disposable.invalid> - 2016-01-30 02:33 +0100
                Re: The C64 is crap! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-01-30 18:16 +1300
                Re: The C64 is crap! Andreas Kohlbach <janrat.9.ankman@spamgourmet.net> - 2016-01-30 14:54 -0500
                Re: The C64 is crap! Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2016-02-01 10:36 +0200
              Re: The C64 is crap! removemefirst.Drew.Klenotic@f1701.n2215.z1.fidonet.org (Drew Klenotic) - 2016-01-26 19:45 +1200
          Re: The C64 is crap! removemefirst.Drew.Klenotic@f1701.n2215.z1.fidonet.org (Drew Klenotic) - 2016-01-26 19:38 +1200
            Re: The C64 is crap! Dombo <dombo@disposable.invalid> - 2016-01-29 23:12 +0100
              Re: The C64 is crap! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-01-30 12:39 +1300
      Re: The C64 is junk! nospam.Ed.Vance@f1.n770.z1437.fidonet.org (Ed Vance) - 2016-02-18 10:23 +1200
        Re: The C64 is junk! Andreas Kohlbach <febr.9.ankman@spamgourmet.net> - 2016-02-19 15:57 -0500
  The C64 is crap! Terry Raymond <traymond20@gmail.com> - 2016-02-08 14:19 -0800

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