Re:Macintosh Stories: Swedish Campground
by ineedtosleep on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @09:57PM
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Every now and then I still call the Command key the 'open apple key' which also then shows how much I know about modern Apple computers (as in I don't own or use one normally).
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I work at Apple and I still call it the Apple key.
Re:Macintosh Stories: Swedish Campground
by coolsunglasses on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @11:24PM
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I pinch my nose when I use a Mac and call it the command key. Sometimes you never can tell.
I think I call it this because it's a de-facto super key for me as an Emacs user and the title of it is inescapable.
I think the Apple logo was added to it when ADB was introduced with the Apple IIgs and Mac SE/II. It was eliminated in the new keyboards released in Aug 2007.
The apple keys were on Apple /// and Apple //e keyboards, before the gs or ADB. It's 'open apple' because there was also a filled-in 'closed apple'
http://www.rhod.fr/images/apple3/apple3-01.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/Apple_IIe...
Yea, that was why the Apple logo was added to the ADB keyboards. The Apple IIgs had to be compatible with the IIe.
Re:Macintosh Stories: Swedish Campground
by henderson101 on Thursday July 04, 2013 @07:35PM
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Yuhong is correct, Mac 128 era keyboards have no Control key. Weird. Option also hay the word and no logo. Command is just the clover, no text.
Those don't have arrow keys, they're pretty fascist keyboards. Part of the motivation is to discourage programmers from writing text based interfaces for the Mac.