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Asus Reveals the Eee Keyboard
El Lobo writes "Asus' success with its Eee line of netbooks might have come as a surprise, but the company is now determined to expand the Eee brand into every possible niche and form factor. Case in point: the insanely cool Eee Keyboard, which will surely bring a smile on the faces of those who remember the glory days of the home computer. Described as a fully functional PC with inset Qwerty key arrangement, the keyboard has a 5in touch screen that displays a suite of bespoke media controls or a Windows desktop."
Ahh. Atari 600, I pine for thee.
There may be no "I" in team, but there's also no "F" in way.
I am glad I kept my Osborne 1 disks - I can now run those programs in full screen mode under cpem80.
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Humm. Now they need to add a USB hard drive that also has a USB Hub in it so that I can add a second USB hard drive and the a printer :)
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"...much like many home computers from the days Back To The Future was cool".
Oh geez! I missed the memo. Back to the Future isn't cool any more? Man I'm getting old!
I already own a computer of a similar form factor. It's kitted out with a state of the art CMOS 6502 processor running at 2 MHz and a unified graphics architecture with 32K of main memory and 32K of PROM based storeage (UV erasable in about 20 minutes or so). Not only that, but it has every expansion port you might expect: parallel, TTL, composite and UHF video, RS-423, analogue, the CPU bus (just for good measure), econet (TM) networking and the innovative Tube(r) interface. Not only that but it also comes with builtin support for both audio tape and *double sided* 5.25 inch floppy disks.
Programs are available for download every night, for free, over the air with a compatible teletext input interface.
Frankly, there's no contest.
Funny anecdote: I remember reading a news story about a burglary at a school which had recently upgraded to the new, shiny Archimedes, replacing their old BBCs. The theives broke in and stole all the keyboards, not realising that the computer was now in a separate box.
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I can only imagine the confusion this will bring to non-Asus tech support around the world:
Tech: How can I help you today, ma'am?
Little Old Lady: Well, I haven't been able to print my letter using the printer I purchased from you, although I can print other documents just fine. I turned my keyboard off and then back on, just like my son taught me...
Tech: You mean your computer, ma'am? You turned your computer off and then back on?
Little Old Lady: Isn't that what I said?! Well, anyways, I'm looking but I can't seem to find my letter, now.
Tech: Ma'am can you please describe what the screen looks like?
Little Old Lady: Which one? There's a copy of the letter that I haven't been able to print on the keyboard right now. And there's just a blank document open on the monitor.
Tech: There's a copy on the keyboard but you haven't been able to print it?!! How did it get onto the keyboard, ma'am?
etc...
Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure everything I just said is completely wrong.
No I thought, "I understand QWERTY and even DVORAK keyboards, but why the hell would anyone want three E keys?"
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It's got USB ports, so you can easily add a second keyboard for some marathon sessions of two-player Notepad!
This guy's the limit!
I sometimes hit the keyboard hard when I have to track down nasty bugs in my Awk code. This would escalate my rage into a costly problem.
This brings up fond memories of back when the keyboard WAS the computer. I remember being a REALLY young kid (probably 7 or 8), and seeing a regular IBM/PC keyboard in the store for $35. Since the only computers I'd ever seen back then were Commodores, TI-99/4a's, Apple's, and Tandys, I perceived this as a great deal since I thought that that keyboard was a whole computer. I remember begging my mom to buy it for me since I wanted a computer so bad and it was only $35. Thankfully, she didn't get it. Man I'd have been disappointed if I'd have gotten that thing home and tried to connect it to a TV :).
Not much later I ended up getting a Commodore 64 :).
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No I thought, "I understand QWERTY and even DVORAK keyboards, but why the hell would anyone want three E keys?"
Obviously you need e, E and €.
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I happen to love the trackpad.
... and trackballs are even more fun to play with...
I usually hate them, but I love the super sensitivity! It makes it such a pleasure to use. Just a quick touch, and such a big response.
Although, historically, I prefer the IBM/lenovo touch point / mouse stick
Quartz Extreme and Core Image. Are there any other real reasons to spend all that money on generic hardware?
Because E is the most used letter in the English alphabet!! Duh!!
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I did. I'm now contemplating a wireless eee cluster. Imagine, a beowulf cluster of tiny computers interconnected via bluetooth or 802.11. I'll get an eeePC, an eeeKeyboard, an eeeMouse, an eeeMonitor, maybe even an eeePrinter, and for the hour of battery life that I get out of them, I'll have a mobile cloud with the processing power of a 4-core workstation powered by Atom! Well, the Intel Atom, not U-238. But still, that's pretty cool!
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