sicklittlemonkey wrote:
Michael J. Mahon wrote:This was in the early 1980s, and the culture inspired a parody keyboard design with seven "modifier" keys and a single "real" key!Now that is a *seriously* cool anecdote! If it were done today, I think modern geek parlance might necessitate an "Uber" key, but I wonder which of the other modifers it would replace. Perhaps Meta, as it's the odd one out.
Actually, eight modifier keys makes for a nice symmetrical keyboard around the "Cookie" key. ;-) And "Meta" as a modifier key has a long and glorious history... -michael NadaNet networking for Apple II computers! Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it's seriously underused."