Mega65 Keyboard prototypes have been manufactured

Re:Mega65 Keyboard prototypes have been manufactured by squarefoot on Monday September 17, 2018 @08:52PM (#18011488)

They should consider a different place for the floppy drive or it would create serious ergonomic issues when operating the arrow keys. Moving it up so that it could interfere with less used keys (help, inst/del, restore) might be a solution. Or just copy the Amigas and point it sideways.

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Re:Mega65 Keyboard prototypes have been manufactured by TheCycoONE on Monday September 17, 2018 @10:11PM (#18011864)

For better or worse, that wouldn't be faithful to the original C65. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/C6...

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Re:Mega65 Keyboard prototypes have been manufactured by Ws32ok on Monday September 17, 2018 @10:43PM (#18012053)

I understand the dream of having a retro thing. And I’m hoping the goal stays the way they like it.

The floppy drive irks me though. I’d still re-box that sucker or put sd card slots or USB inside it. Maybe if I can just get the motherboard and keyboard with the blinkenlights.

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Re:Mega65 Keyboard prototypes have been manufactured by mega65 on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @01:43AM (#18021980)

Having used a real C65 for a number of years, the floppy drive does not in fact get in the way of use of the cursor keys. Any, yes, we are putting real floppy drives in these.

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