The original PET keyboard was a PITA to use, but it was nonetheless tremendously cool in its day mainly because of all the graphics symbols. It was the emoji keyboard of the time, except that the PET's symbols were composable in two dimensions to make awesome-looking (by the standards of the day) pictures. The integrated B&W CRT display was crisp and clean, because it was a direct connect and didn't have an RF modulator (which you needed to connect most computers of the day to a TV set). It resembled the Macintosh more than is commonly acknowledged.

Life was simpler then. Sometimes I miss those days.