On Thu, 26 Jan 2023, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
Sounds like what Apple came up with for its laptops a while ago, though
in the most recent generation they dumped the idea.
A somewhat similar but more primitive thing is found in the DEC VT71/t
typesetting terminal, which has a row of 16 "User Defined Keys" at the
top. These have double keycaps, an outer transparent plastic shell that
snaps over a smaller ordinary keycap with no label. The idea is that
you could make your own labels and insert them under the clear shell.
Then again, a lot of users simply laid a cardboard strip with legends
just above the top row:
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/terminal/vt71t/vt71t.jpg
Some PC software, such as WordPervert, made heavy use of the "function
keys". There were cardboard templates to put around the function keys to
label their use.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred [email protected]
