Chiclet Keyboard - List of Early Computers With Chiclet Keyboards

List of Early Computers With Chiclet Keyboards

All of the computers listed hail from the early home computer era, except the OLPC XO-1.

  • Atari Portfolio (its keys resembled those of a HP pocket calculator)
  • AT&T Sceptre Videotex terminal
  • Cambridge Z88 (arguably a mix between a membrane and chiclet keyboard)
  • Commodore PET 2001 (the original 1977 PET) had the square keys of a calculator or cash register.
  • Commodore 116 (version of the C16 sold only in Europe)
  • Enterprise 64 (had a rubber keyboard, on top of which plastic keycaps were glued)
  • IBM PCjr
  • Jupiter ACE (Sinclair spectrum style black rubber keys)
  • Mattel Aquarius (blue rubber keys)
  • Microdigital TK 90X (Brazil ZX Spectrum derivation)
  • Multitech Microprofessor I (MPF 1) and MPF II (the latter an early Apple II compatible)
  • OLPC XO-1 (green rubber keys molded from a single sheet of rubber)
  • Oric-1 (hard key tops glued on a rubber sheet, somewhat resembling the PCjr)
  • Panasonic JR-200
  • Sinclair ZX Spectrum 16/48K (later models had slightly improved keyboards)
  • Spectravideo SV-318
  • Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer I (later 'CoCo's had full-travel keyboards)
  • Tandy TRS-80 MC-10 and its French counterpart, the Matra Alice
  • Texas Instruments TI-99/4 (predecessor of the TI-99/4A, which had a full-travel keyboard)
  • Thomson MO5 (French microcomputer based on the 6809 microprocessor)
  • Timex Sinclair 1500 (U.S. ZX81 derivation)
  • Timex Sinclair 2068 (U.S. ZX Spectrum derivation)
  • VTech Laser 200 (also known as the Video Technology VZ200)
  • Some early models of MSX computers, for example the Philips VG-8010

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