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From: Rowland McDonnell on 26 Jan 2010 17:08 Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > > > > What use was a `help' key back in the ADB days? And what on Earth could > > > > have the `ins' key have been used for then? > > > > > > My ADB keyboard ('AppleDesign Keyboard' model M2980) has one as well. > > > > Yeahbut: what for? > > Pressing? > > No, but seriously, I have no idea. I've wondered the same thing myself > on occasion. Oh good. It's not just me then. FWIW, while my ADB keyboards are (I think) all stashed in the loft[1], I've just looked at the printed manual for my Performa 475 (for all Performas of the time) and the illustration of the ADB keyboard supplied has so sign of a key marked Help or Ins. Rowland. [1] Except for one, which is possibly in an upstairs room and yet less accessible. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Dr Geoff Hone on 26 Jan 2010 17:38 On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:07:51 +0000, jim(a)magrathea.plus.com (Jim) wrote: >My ADB keyboard ('AppleDesign Keyboard' model M2980) has one as well. SNAP!
From: Richard Tobin on 26 Jan 2010 18:28 In article <1jcxi6o.s7a8e31xrmmalN%real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid>, Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: >This help/ins thing he's talking about - not on any desktop Mac keyboard >I have accessible here, and I'm looking at five different generations. This page shows lots of Apple keyboards. The "Apple Extended Keyboard - 1990" has a help/ins key. http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/01/the-evolution-of-apple-design-between-1977-2008/ -- Richard -- Please remember to mention me / in tapes you leave behind.
From: Tim Streater on 26 Jan 2010 18:42 On 26/01/2010 20:13, Richard Tobin wrote: > In article<1jcxy61.is9qv5ild62qN%real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid>, > Rowland McDonnell<real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > >>> It wasn't an album cover, it's a famous Magritte painting. > >> Looks like it should have been an album cover. > > A quick Google suggests that it's one of the few Magritte paintings > that hasn't been used as an album cover. > >> Famous, eh? I suspect >> more people have heard of Manchester Utd than have heard of Magritte, > > I've read that more people go to the opera each week than to football > matches. That may be an exaggeration, but plenty of people go. It's probably cheaper than going to a football match, too. Whenever I went to one at the Corn Exchange in Cambridge, it was sold out. And tickets were less than �20. Equally at any other venue, such as the Albert hall to see Madame Butterfly. 5000 people there for each of the 10 performances. -- Tim "That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted" Bill of Rights 1689
From: Tim Streater on 26 Jan 2010 18:46
On 26/01/2010 20:08, Woody wrote: > On 26/01/2010 20:13, Richard Tobin wrote: >> In >> article<1jcxy61.is9qv5ild62qN%real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid>, >> >> Rowland McDonnell<real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: >> >>>> It wasn't an album cover, it's a famous Magritte painting. >> >>> Looks like it should have been an album cover. >> >> A quick Google suggests that it's one of the few Magritte paintings >> that hasn't been used as an album cover. >> >>> Famous, eh? I suspect >>> more people have heard of Manchester Utd than have heard of Magritte, >> >> I've read that more people go to the opera each week than to football >> matches. > > Seems somehow unlikely. Is that worldwide? > > If so, why is the opera subsidised in this country, and football clubs > raking in large sums of money? Bad management? Not obvious that it is, except perhaps Covent Garden. > I hear people talking about football matches at work though, I don't > recall ever hearing anyone talk about an opera. You don't talk to enough people then. All sorts of surprising people go to operas. But I think many people expect that only snobs or toffs go, and that the tickets cost �200. Me, I go in the hope that one day I'll come across some snobs or toffs at the opera, but I've been disappointed for the last 30 years. -- Tim "That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted" Bill of Rights 1689 |