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Nobel prize in harware goes to ... [message #8294]

Fri, 05 February 2021 22:07

b1ackmai1er
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Registered: November 2017

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drdr .. drdr .. drrrrr

https://github.com/aderusha/NeverNotNumlock

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Re: Nobel prize in harware goes to ... [message #8304 is a reply to message #8294]

Mon, 08 February 2021 06:27

just4fun
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Registered: May 2017
Location: Dark side of the Moon

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Re: Nobel prize in harware goes to ... [message #8305 is a reply to message #8294]

Mon, 08 February 2021 06:28

ale500
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Registered: April 2018

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This makes me think about another oddity: the German keyboard doesn't have (at least the ones I know about) a "caps lock" key, it has a "shift lock" key: (Other keyboards I used like the Spanish Spain and LA have a "caps lock" key) you may guess what happens when you are custom to use this caps lock key and type some letters and numbers... you get some ugly symbols instead !... who, please who thought that was a good idea... I think that in gnome it can be changed but I haven't found how to change the behavior in windoze, yet. I think that swiss keyboard doesn't have this *ahem* feature. I don't remember anymore Sad

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Re: Nobel prize in harware goes to ... [message #8314 is a reply to message #8305]

Tue, 09 February 2021 13:24

gkaufman
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Registered: October 2015

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This frustration started with the Caps Lock on Ohio Scientific Computers!

Especially annoying as replacement latching switches are essentially unobtainable Confused

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Re: Nobel prize in harware goes to ... [message #8318 is a reply to message #8294]

Sat, 13 February 2021 21:53

Garth
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Registered: April 2016
Location: Southern California

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I can type. Without looking, I reach up for the numerals in the upper row of keys. It was the only way we could do it in typing class in high school on the typewriters. I always keep the number lock off. One reason is that my CAD uses the number keypad for cursor directions, with the corner keys being exactly 45° diagonal, and in my programmer's text editor, the 5 in the middle puts the line that has the cursor active in the middle of the window. These are super handy. I also use the DEL key that's on the decimal point of the number keypad.

http://WilsonMinesCo.com/ lots of 6502 resources

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