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From: Rowland McDonnell on 23 Jan 2010 11:25 Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > > > Lots of PCs have keyboards have extra keys on them, such as volume > > > controls and an eject key. I've got a Fujitsu keyboard here somewhere > > > like that. They presumably come with a driver disk (for Windows) to make > > > those key do something, but a Mac won't recognise them unless there's > > > also a Mac driver disk. > > > > This was a keyboard designed for Macs. Keyboards designed for Windoze > > don't have Mac style command keys, do they? > > Assuming you mean the Mac's 'Command' (curly pretzel) key, no. What we used to call the Apple key, until Apple took the Apple symbol off it. Rowland. -- 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: Jim on 23 Jan 2010 11:51 Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > > This was a keyboard designed for Macs. Keyboards designed for Windoze > > > don't have Mac style command keys, do they? > > > > Assuming you mean the Mac's 'Command' (curly pretzel) key, no. > > What we used to call the Apple key, until Apple took the Apple symbol > off it. I still think of it as 'Helicopter', but for the life of me I can't remember where I picked that up from. Jim -- "Microsoft admitted its Vista operating system was a 'less good product' in what IT experts have described as the most ambitious understatement since the captain of the Titanic reported some slightly damp tablecloths." http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/
From: D.M. Procida on 23 Jan 2010 13:40 Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > >> I hope you're not dissing the cokebottle, extended-meta, and wombat keys? > > > > Huh. Now what do they d > > > > > > + + + NO CARRIER + + + > > Works every time. Does anyone remember the AT modem command that could be encoded into text, which, when your mark tried to download your text, would make his modem hang up? Daniele
From: Jim on 23 Jan 2010 13:47 D.M. Procida <real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk> wrote: > Does anyone remember the AT modem command that could be encoded into > text, which, when your mark tried to download your text, would make his > modem hang up? +++ ATH I think. Jim -- http://www.ursaMinorBeta.co.uk http://twitter.com/GreyAreaUK Please help save Bletchley Park - sign the petition for Government funding at: (open to UK residents and ex.pats) http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/BletchleyPark/ Thank you.
From: David Empson on 23 Jan 2010 15:41
Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > > > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > > > > > Lots of PCs have keyboards have extra keys on them, such as volume > > > > controls and an eject key. I've got a Fujitsu keyboard here somewhere > > > > like that. They presumably come with a driver disk (for Windows) to make > > > > those key do something, but a Mac won't recognise them unless there's > > > > also a Mac driver disk. > > > > > > This was a keyboard designed for Macs. Keyboards designed for Windoze > > > don't have Mac style command keys, do they? > > > > Assuming you mean the Mac's 'Command' (curly pretzel) key, no. > > What we used to call the Apple key, until Apple took the Apple symbol > off it. It was called the Apple key back in the days of the Apple II, since the key just had an Apple symbol on it (Open Apple on an Apple III, IIe and IIc; the Option key started out as Closed/Solid Apple). The IIgs even used the Apple symbol in its menu shortcuts. The Macintosh (1984) started out by using just the "cloverleaf" symbol on the Command key, and in menus, and called it "Command" from day one. (I'm not familiar enough with the Lisa.) When ADB was introduced with the Apple IIgs (1986), its keyboard had the first instance of the Apple/Command pairing, plus Option. The same symbols were used when ADB appeared on the Mac in 1987 (Mac SE), since all ADB keyboards could be used on both the Apple IIgs and the Mac (SE and later). Hence the Apple symbol was for the Apple IIgs, and the Command symbol was for the Macintosh. After a while the Apple/Command symbol pairing stuck, even beyond the demise of the Apple IIgs (1992), but Apple persisted in calling the key "Command" and using the Command symbol to refer to it. Apple finally got rid of the Apple symbol on the key around 2008. -- David Empson dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz |