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Not to mention that until the Apple //e was released in 1983, there weren’t even arrow keys on the Apple ][ keyboard. Even in the Apple //e era, word-processing
by dhosek 3y ago
Not to mention that until the Apple //e was released in 1983, there weren’t even arrow keys on the Apple ][ keyboard. Even in the Apple //e era, word-processing was not only not WYSIWYG, but you had to insert printer-specific control sequences in your output which meant that on some printers, if you had a line break in the middle of an underlined phrase, the underline would continue from the left margin on the second line.
- dmolony 3y agoThe Apple ][+ (which I bought in 1981) had left and right arrow keys, but no up/down arrow keys.
- dhosek 3y agoIt’s been so long since I used a ][+, I forgot that there was a right arrow key. I thought there was only a backspace ley, but there was, along with a “rept” key which I’d completely forgotten (not to mention that horribly-placed reset key).