19 Oct
2010
19 Oct
'10
2:02 p.m.
In article <AANLkTikPOCKN41xS97kZ_Vyk9_k7uT81_Wic_wf9JHk3 at mail.gmail.com>,
Mark Davidson <mdavidson1963 at gmail.com> writes:
When people are geeky enough to be interested in my collection of
serial terminals, this is one of the things I point out. I give them
a tour of the different keyboards. Most people don't realize that
there was a time when lower case was a luxury :-). I show them
Tektronix 4010 keyboards where punctuation characters are available on
the shifted alphabetic keys.
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If you mean
very special and specific keys, I guess they rather limit the
sort of software you can run, or at least which will make sensible use of
the keyboard.
I actually did mean that. He's only 14, so he's used to the keyboards
most in use these days, with F1-F12, Insert, Delete, etc. I think he
was fascinated by the differences in the QX-10 keyboard. He had never
seen anything like it.