A quiz for all you Mac old timers
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From: nospam on 23 Feb 2010 18:43 In article <michelle-DDE1E1.16380023022010(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote: > In the original Macintosh System, Finder, Macwrite, and/or Macpaint, what > did these keyboard shortcuts do? (Some of them did different things in > different environments, though.) > > Command-P plain text > Command-W close window. i don't recall it doing anything else. > Command-U underline text > Command-O open document. i don't recall it doing anything else.
From: nospam on 23 Feb 2010 20:15 In article <michelle-E014CC.18123123022010(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote: > Only in the Finder, but in the applications, it meant outline text. i remember outline text. hideous. there was another one that was worse, wasn't there? shadow?
From: Paul Magnussen on 23 Feb 2010 20:55 nospam wrote: > In article <michelle-E014CC.18123123022010(a)news.eternal-september.org>, > Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote: > >> Only in the Finder, but in the applications, it meant outline text. > > i remember outline text. hideous. there was another one that was worse, > wasn't there? shadow? It was hideous at small point sizes - it was quite nice at 48 pt or thereabouts.
From: Erik Richard Sørensen on 23 Feb 2010 21:52 Michelle Steiner wrote: > In the original Macintosh System, Finder, Macwrite, and/or Macpaint, what > did these keyboard shortcuts do? (Some of them did different things in > different environments, though.) In MacWrite II/Pro and System 7.0.1 to 9.2.2: > Command-P > Command-W Close frontmost window > Command-U Underline > Command-O Open new empty file Can't remember if they are different in MacPaint. - My OS 9.x machine is already closed down for the night.:-) Cheers, Erik Richard -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Erik Richard Sørensen, Member of ADC, <mac-manNOSP(a)Mstofanet.dk> NisusWriter - The Future In Multilingual Text Processing - www.nisus.com OpenOffice.org - The Modern Productivity Solution - www.openoffice.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
From: nospam on 23 Feb 2010 22:02
In article <4b84947c$0$8546$ba624c82(a)nntp06.dk.telia.net>, Erik Richard S�rensen <NOSPAM(a)NOSPAM.dk> wrote: > > Command-O > > Open new empty file that's a contradiction. |