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medwards666
48 days ago
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Show HN: I've built a tiny hand-held keyboard
Wasn't the Microwriter was it perchance?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwriter
osullivj
48 days ago
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I saw that demoed at Notts Micro Computing Club in the early 80s. IIRC a Microwriter was used to drive input for an Acorn Electron.
medwards666
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Yup. There were drivers for both the Electron and the BBC Micro (required the Model B IIRC, Model A didn't have enough spare RAM for the software)
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