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Obciouly not exactly the same, but this article reminded me of the scroll lock key. Many people seem to have forgotten its original purpose: When PC Magazine as
by invalidusernam3 8y ago
Obciouly not exactly the same, but this article reminded me of the scroll lock key. Many people seem to have forgotten its original purpose: When PC Magazine asked an executive of keyboard manufacturer Key Tronic about the key's purpose, he replied "I don't know, but we put it on ours, too"
- dbenhur 8y agoWikipedia remembers: "The Scroll Lock key was meant to lock all scrolling techniques, and is a vestige of the original IBM PC keyboard. In the original design, Scroll Lock was intended to modify the behavior of the arrow keys. When the Scroll Lock mode was on, the arrow keys would scroll the contents of a text window instead of moving the cursor. In this usage, Scroll Lock is a toggling lock key like Num Lock or Caps Lock, which have a state that persists after the key is released." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scroll_lock#Window_scrolling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scroll_lock#Window_scrolling
- ComputerGuru 8y agoIt still works that way too in a real vtty. Hit scroll lock to scroll through the text buffer at the terminal in a text-only session with the up and down arrows on BSD. Very handy.
- mrguyorama 8y agoMy modern keyboard even still contains little arrow glyphs on the number pad keys to correspond with them.
- collinmanderson 8y agoIsn't that for num-lock? (or when num-lock is off?)