That info is not entirely corect. As early as 1985 or 1986, the
control key was available on Apple 2E and 2C computers as well as the
open and close apple keys. I used those machines in school and most
of the commands then were executed with the control key, not the
apple keys. That includes the main screen reader of the day,
Textalker for Apple 2, which dated back further than that.
On Apr 13, 2007, at 2:36 PM, Access Curmudgeon wrote:
question: did Apple always have a full complement of modifier keys
(command,
option, control) all along, or did these get introduced along the
way?
Early Apple II computers had two modifier keys (open and closed Apple)
which morphed into Command and Option. The control key was introduced
in 1986 with ADB and the Mac SE and II gs and the growing popularity
of terminal emulation packages. A year later, function keys appears.
From the beginning, and to this day, the Command key has invoked
functions, the Option key special characters, and the Control key
terminal characters. More information on wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_key
