Re: [NTLK] Not really Re: Platform crap...

From: Grant [Tonic Bottle] Hutchinson (grant_at_splorp.com)
Date: Thu Nov 08 2001 - 20:45:38 EST


In a previous message, Michael J. Hu=DFmann typed vigorously:

>> Not to sound like an apologist, but are you sure? Every Apple
>> keyboard I've ever seen has had arrow keys. Not always in the
>> inverted-T, but they've had arrow keys.
>
>The original Mac keyboard had none. I'm absolutely sure about that. I
>still remember the debates about why Apple did remove the arrow keys, why
>they did reintroduce them later.

I can verify this. The keyboard for my original 128K Mac (I just looked
in the basement, honest...) does not have arrow keys. Neither does the
keyboard for my Lisa, as a matter of fact... although at least it has a
separate numeric keypad.

g.

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