20 Jun
2000
20 Jun
'00
6:25 p.m.
The Mac Plus on my desk right now has cursor keys.
I've
heard that the 128k Mac (the very first model) had >neither cursor keys nor
the numeric keypad.
I have an Apple /// at home which has special keys for
cursor movement. They auto-repeat quite slowly when held
down, but if you press a bit harder, the auto-repeat >speeds up. Rather a
nice idea, I thought.
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John Honniball
Email: John.Honniball(a)uwe.ac.uk
University of the West of England
John is right. The keyboards on the Mac 128 & 512 have no arrow keys. I even
have a "proper" keyboard (made by datadesk) that has arrow keys, but they
don't work.
So I suppose that the ROM has no support for the keys.
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David Vohs, Digital Archaeologist & Computer Historian.
Home page: http://www.geocities.com/netsurfer_x1/
Computer Collection:
"Triumph": Commodore 64C, 1802, 1541, FSD-1, GeoRAM 512, MPS-801.
"Leela": Macintosh 128 (Plus upgrade), Nova SCSI HDD, Imagewriter II.
"Delorean": TI-99/4A, TI Speech Synthesizer.
"Monolith": Apple Macintosh Portable.
"Spectrum": Tandy Color Computer 3.
"Boombox": Sharp PC-7000.
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