Originally posted by Paddy
Not to mention the charming System 34, which had a key marked "Stop" as well as another key marked "Help". Computers since then have veered away from the idea of such user-over-frendliness.
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Request the System's attention. I'm more accustomed to PA1 and PA2.
Not to mention the charming System 34, which had a key marked "Stop" as well as another key marked "Help". Computers since then have veered away from the idea of such user-over-frendliness. -
Sun boxen still have a Stop and Help key on the left hand side. Pressing Stop-A does exactly that. Stops everything stone dead and drops you to the Prom.Originally posted by expatComment
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Oh, I do like to stroll along the prom, prom, prom....Originally posted by Erik The VIkingComment
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Same. I wrote a gambling game in forth on a sun prom once. Man i was bored that week.
I'm using one of them ^^^^^ (Apple Pro keyboard). Best keyboard I ever had bar one of those big sheet steel IBM ones from the 80's.Serving religion with the contempt it deserves...Comment
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Yes I use one too - but the " @ ~ # (etc.) key placement annoys me no end.Originally posted by TheMonkeySame. I wrote a gambling game in forth on a sun prom once. Man i was bored that week.
I'm using one of them ^^^^^ (Apple Pro keyboard). Best keyboard I ever had bar one of those big sheet steel IBM ones from the 80's.
You've come right out the other side of the forest of irony and ended up in the desert of wrong.
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A keyboard for the truly exceptional.
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or the exceptionally blindOriginally posted by _V_A keyboard for the truly exceptional.
BTW I touch type - that's why I have probs with apple keyboards.
Oh! and apple's 'perspex tray' construction is not the best to recover when you spill your coffee, beer etc. all over it
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You've come right out the other side of the forest of irony and ended up in the desert of wrong.
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Anyone remember the COMPAQ Erase-Eaze keyboard?
Used to do my head in. Putting SPACE and Anti-SPACE so close together was bound to cause trouble.Blair, you cannot reach me now,
No matter how you try,
Goodbye cruel Labour,
Your end is nigh.
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Whoever decided to put Windows keys between Alt and Ctrl a Microsoft should beheaded, the twit obviously never played computer games.Comment
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Yeah - I've said oh **** so many times whilst hitting the windows key in the middle of a UT game.Originally posted by AtWServing religion with the contempt it deserves...Comment
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