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Just for the record, I agree with you. I'm not sure if I worded my response correctly.

I also think the keyboard on the Speak & Spell is better than the 2016 Macbook keyboard.

There's a nostalgia hit!

  SNS: SPELL MRGHHSHFG.

  Me: what?

  SNS: SPELL FHJFRJEBRBDN.

  Me: what ARE you saying!?

Bit of trivia: my uncle was the executive at TI that green-lit the Speak-N-Spell. I was a tad bit older than the target market, but got invited to be in one of the early focus groups they used to gage reaction to it. I thought it was the coolest thing since sliced bread and saved my pennies to buy a speech synthesizer for my 99/4 after seeing it.

But yes, it had a worse keyboard than even the original 99/4.

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