In <[email protected]>, on 11/13/2011
at 01:47 AM, Leonard D Woren <[email protected]> said:
>Otherwise the 2250 was ignored because of the keyboard which
>could most charitably be described as clunky, even by 1973
>standards.
Well, the 360/91 itself could most charitably be described as clunky,
even by 1973 standards.
>It was the same mechanical key-interlock keyboard as on the
>2741 (?), where pressing a key pushed a bunch of machinery
>around inside the keyboard to prevent you from pressing two keys
>at once.
As opposed to the 3277, where striking two keys in rapid succession
lead to transposition if you released the second before releasing the
first, at least in World Trade.
>Interestingly enough, MVT supported using the light pen to click on
>the MCS console for the functions of "K D,F" and "K E,D", and I
>have a really vague recollection that there were numbers you could
>click on for the equivalent of PFK-assigned commands.
Documented. As I recall, some of that was there before DIDOCS.
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