Correctronic 340 Keyboard

[Amice Golden]

TheGX-6750 is an entry-level portable daisywheel typewriter. Its features include the Perfectype professional touch keyboard, automatic correction system including "word-out" and a 65 character lift-off memory, automatic underlining, bold printing, right margin flush and view mode. It has a variable 10/12 pitch-typing selector, caps lock, line indent and automatic paper insertion.

I guess I should admit, though, that with the 800XL I was using to run a BBS, having SpartaDOS X, R-Time 8, and Rev. C BASIC cartridges all stacked on one another in the cartridge slot, if you even breathed on it the wrong way, the system would crash.

If most people don't care too much about the original case and keyboard, then we already have a "new" FPGA based machine. The Eclaire XL is exactly that and have been "available" (with the chip shortage constrains and limitation) for years:

I understand it is currently not available mainly because of the chip shortage. This affects almost every FPGA & CPLD based device, including a potential RM. Seems the chip shortage is finally ending this year, though. So hopefully the Eclaire will be available again shortly.

Btw. one thing to consider regarding keyboard is the length of the space bar. While standard Atari space bar is 9U (1U being width of a standard letter key), modern keyboards mostly use 6.25U length and it's pretty much impossible to get the long space bar anywhere. For the sake of customizability (e.g. getting a keycap set from WASDkeyboards.com), it would be advisable to consider the standard modern space bar for the RM800 keyboard.

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