7 Sep
2018
7 Sep
'18
11:33 p.m.
On Sep 7, 2018, at 4:15 PM, Frank McConnell via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Sep 7, 2018, at 12:00, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
No, there were terminals that had a (small) control key down near the space bar long
before IBM did it with the PC. I can?t recall which at the moment (but I recall having to
deal with them in the mid-to-late 70?s).
I also looked at the keyboards on my Symbolics machines, and where I?d like to have the
control key is the ?rubout? key. But given that there are no fewer than 5 ?shift? keys on
the Symbolics keyboard (hyper, super, meta, control, shift?I can?t recall at the moment if
symbol is also a ?shift? key), it makes a bit of sense to have them all near each other.
;-)
TTFN - Guy
interesting.. the vt71t has inverted-T cursor
keys
And CAPS LOCK in the home row to the left of the A key. The VT220 made it w-i-d-e. Can
we now fix the blame for the two of the three worst ideas in computer keyboard design on
d|i|g|i|t|a|l? (#3 would be sending CONTROL to live in the spacebar row and I think maybe
we need to blame IBM for that.)