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Re:Macintosh Stories: Swedish Campground by glurgh on Thursday July 04, 2013 @05:34AM (#5989886)
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...

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Re:Macintosh Stories: Swedish Campground by yuhong on Thursday July 04, 2013 @03:08PM (#5992037)
Yea, that was why the Apple logo was added to the ADB keyboards. The Apple IIgs had to be compatible with the IIe.
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Re:Macintosh Stories: Swedish Campground by henderson101 on Thursday July 04, 2013 @07:35PM (#5992883)
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.
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Re:Macintosh Stories: Swedish Campground by glurgh on Friday July 05, 2013 @12:58AM (#5993501)
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.
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Re:Macintosh Stories: Swedish Campground by yuhong on Thursday July 04, 2013 @09:54PM (#5993175)
I believe the addition of the Control key was for the same reason.
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