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Weird Keyboards.

Posted By: Nyperold, on host 205.216.76.230
Date: Tuesday, April 9, 2002, at 11:40:23
In Reply To: Re: Standardised Keyboards. posted by codeman38 on Tuesday, April 9, 2002, at 09:37:58:

> Oh, I just noticed a mistake there: Shift-semicolon should be a period (a.k.a. full-stop) rather than an underline.
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> Apparently the keyboard was designed by C programmers or something. Who in their right mind would SHIFT such a crucial punctuation mark?
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> -- codeman"verdict: French keyboards are even weirder"38

A diagram of the TI-99/4A keyboard, sans the cartridge slot. Isn't it messeed? Good thing it's mostly used for programming, although there were a few word processors for it...

Nyperold

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Message:	> > Oh, I just noticed a mistake there: Shift-semicolon should be a period (a.k.a. full-stop) rather than an underline. > > > > Apparently the keyboard was designed by C programmers or something. Who in their right mind would SHIFT such a crucial punctuation mark? > > > > -- codeman"verdict: French keyboards are even weirder"38 > > A diagram of the TI-99/4A keyboard, sans the cartridge slot. Isn't it messeed? Good thing it's mostly used for programming, although there were a few word processors for it... > > Nyperold
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