Option keys etc

[Joel Hopwood]

On Saturday, May 10, 2003, at 04:09  am, PowerBook G4 Titanium List 
wrote:

> Good stuff! One more confusing point from the past is that back in the 
> day
> Apple (and maybe some other companies) used to print those weird icons 
> for
> alt/option - shift - return - delete on it's keyboards.  I always 
> thought
> the option key icon looked like a little brick going up/down an 
> escalator.
>

Funnily enough, Bill, i think it goes the other way around!

Back in the day, my SE (man, that was a lovely mac but that's another 
story - I do sometimes miss the simplicity of the little 512x384 black 
and white screen and system 6...) anyway, my SE used to have "option" 
printed on the option key, which I always thought was sensible because 
you couldn't possibly mistake it with anything else.

These days, in an effort to be compatible with the PC crowd, Apple 
tends to label the option key 'alt', and also add the brick going down 
the escalator icon. This is how it is on my Ti 667, and on my Apple 
Extended Keyboard II - but not you note on my old Apple Standard 
keyboard (which incidentally has the nicest action of the lot!).

The Apple key has always had the Apple and cloverleaf logos.

Cheers

Joel

Joel Hopwood
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