On 2013-05-02, at 23:20, Bil Herd wrote: > The pisser was the 25 conductor cable for the keyboard cost as much as the > VIC and 8563 chips combined! At least that pisser was not detachable from the keyboard. One: it didn't get lost as easily as the SX one and two: you would probably need to add SID to the equation to get those funky plugs manufactured at comparable price. With SX I always wondered WTF.. non ergonomic, susceptible to fall off, probably over-expensive to manufacture and damned short.. what somebody was thinking back there.. ? The 128 did at least 50% better ;-) and the first Amiga was already done right. There you couldn't possibly go cheaper with KBD cable. -- SD! Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing listReceived on 2013-05-03 00:00:53
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