The old Apple 2C Plus had a button switch next to the reset key that
could switch the keyboard back and forth between QWERTY and DVORAK
modes.
On Apr 13, 2007, at 4:08 PM, Dan Keys wrote:
Hello,
They even had a QWERTY switch.
On Apr 13, 2007, at 2:59 PM, Josh de Lioncourt wrote:
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
