At 7:03 AM -0800 1/4/05, Dennis B. Swaney wrote:
History Lesson:
Originally, what is now the left "Command" key was called the Open-Apple key on the Apple II keyboards. The right "Command" key was called the Closed-Apple key and the apple was a solid one. Both of these modifier keys did different actions. When the Mac came out it dropped the Closed-Apple key but kept the Open-Apple key, added the "cloverleaf", and called it the "Command" key. BTW, there is a name for the "cloverleaf" symbol; it is something like "Quadrial", "Quadrigale", IIRC
The first Macs had just the Cloverleaf symbol, it was sometime later that the Apple was added. Apple wanted to call it the Command key and went looking for an international symbol that applied. The Cloverleaf was the closest they could find.
I remember when I first started helping out at my daughters' school and kept getting confused when people referred to the "Apple" key. Up to that point I had used a Mac 512K, Plus and IIsi and as far as I can recall they all had jut the Cloverleaf symbol on the Command key.
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