30 Aug
2002
30 Aug
'02
7:57 a.m.
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 02:32:30AM -0700, Sellam Ismail wrote:
> > If I recall correctly, the seminally useless
40/80 column switch on the
Does that mean "useless from the time when it was created" or "useless and
spreading its uselessness to all its descendants"? :)
Do you know of a program that actually read that switch? The expansions
that made the ][+ into the //e and //c were rather complicated, and yet not
complete enough (I wish they had made all the soft switches readable --
I hate write-only registers).
Who the hell uses Dvorak? A very interesting and
unique feature to have
on a computer (anyone else know of a computer that had a switch that would
instantly change the keymapping between QWERTY and Dvorak?)
No, but I do know that the same feature existed on the //e (i.e. before the
//c came out) but it was only accessible by changing internal wiring. I
read about this in an issue of Call A.P.P.L.E. which (of course) I no longer
have.
And the _original_ Dvorak layout had the numbers in the order
1 3 5 7 9 0 8 6 4 2
or something like that. I have too much work to do to look it up right now.
-- Derek