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On the Commodore 64 it was a SHIFT LOCK key rather than just Caps Lock. Sightly more useful.
by Osiris 3y ago
On the Commodore 64 it was a SHIFT LOCK key rather than just Caps Lock. Sightly more useful.
- goykasi 3y agoI never used a C64. What is the difference between shift and caps? Symbol usage?
- jagged-chisel 3y agoYes. On a physical typewriter, the shift was raising the whole typing carriage to get to the lower part of the striker (I don’t know the right vocabulary) to hit the ribbon. It was heavy. So to do several in a row, a shift lock was provided. Because of how it worked physically, it was indeed shift lock rather than caps lock. I guess someone decided “why not ‘shift lock’ just for letters?”
- gpvos 3y agoCaps lock works only on letters, shift lock on everything that has a different meaning when shift is pressed, so also the numbers, symbols, function keys, etc.
- WorldMaker 3y agoI don't know about the C64 implementation, but some Shift locks also acted as a shift toggle rather than just "all caps"/"shift stuck", so you could use shift to "unshift" during shift lock to get a lowercase letter or a number.