Comment on Two of world's first desktop computers found during house clearance
otter@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Wow that looks cool, would love to see more about it. Especially the colors
Some other things I noticed
hose arrow keys are confusing, but I can see why the first thought was to place them like that
I've seen worse. The Commodore 64 used two arrow keys and Shift. Many 8-bit computers split them onto completely different sides of the keyboard, and nobody agreed on what the layout should be, even if the group was similar. Finally, DEC and then IBM standardized the inverted T, and all was right with the world.
Yep I do not like those 😬
I think that was quite common in that era - probably from typewriters which had a shift lock rather than a caps lock (as due to the mechanical nature it isn’t possible to shift just the alphabetic characters on a typewriter). Commodore used Shift Lock on their computers pre-Amiga (also it was a physical clicky button, which is the most satisfying thing ever).
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 4 months ago
How do you feel about “Alpha Shift”, " 3rd Shift", and “4th Shift”?