That came in beginning with the //e, they were mapped to be equivalent to paddle button 1 and 2. Ctrl-open apple-reset triggered a reboot. It’s 36 years since I

That came in beginning with the //e, they were mapped to be equivalent to paddle button 1 and 2. Ctrl-open apple-reset triggered a reboot. It’s 36 years since I’ve used an Apple //e but this is still wired deep in my brain. This approach to the new keys meant that applications could use the two Apple keys as modifiers without a whole lot of effort since you could read the key press and state of the paddle button easily enough. At some point, they also required ctrl to be pressed along side reset to prevent it from being accidentally triggered (it was right next to the return key). Reset on its own terminated the currently running program (as opposed to ctrl-c which stopped a BASIC program but you could resume the program—this was an early means of debugging since you could do things like PRINT A$ to see the value of A$ at the time that you stopped the program or even alter program variables before resuming). There was one occasion when someone at my high school was experiencing great frustration because every time he did ctrl-reset, the computer rebooted. It turned out that a book was sitting on top of the paddles depressing the button.