Keyboard mystery: I’ve seen a bunch of older Mac keyboards today (including the legendary black MacBook) where Control key is adorned with an extra pen icon. What is that all about? I have never seen this before.pic.twitter.com/kPgbIWecwD
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Keyboard mystery: I’ve seen a bunch of older Mac keyboards today (including the legendary black MacBook) where Control key is adorned with an extra pen icon. What is that all about? I have never seen this before.pic.twitter.com/kPgbIWecwD
(Also, in that second photo, note the huegest one key, with a right-aligned legend!)
Mystery solved! The pen was to draw attention to the menu allowing you to switch between many modes of entering Japanese. It otherwise behaved as ^ or Ctrl. The shortcuts still work today, but the special icon and key are gone. I am not sure why the intro’ed it or removed it.pic.twitter.com/PRUr9oBkgw
Japanese Enter is already rather big but, if there’s room, it can be made gargantuan. (Last photo is the more typical size.)pic.twitter.com/98WkhM9LBW
This is in contrast to the spacebar, used sparingly and usually sacrificed to make room for keys used to switch between many necessary input methods or to aid in typing complex Japanese characters by describing them via QWERTY.pic.twitter.com/MJjVC6ZVXH
Although of course I also stumbled upon the Steelseries gaming keyboard with its massive spacebar. (Early on, some 19th-century typewriters called spacebar a “space plate.” This one deserves that name.)pic.twitter.com/1swavHnC9V
Keyboard-related purchases count: 2 I bought a bad Japanese keyboard part for less than a dollar!pic.twitter.com/4K3mlEXBdE
Q: …thanks, boss, we’ll make it happen somehow. *leaves the room, 1 enters with a worried look on its face* 1: I heard some rumours about downsizing. Boss: Don’t worry, you still have a job. Speaking of which, have you seen Tab around?pic.twitter.com/9D8H4HbYqu
Keyboard-related purchases count: 3 I liked this one because it says “Logicool,” and it has Japanese layout, and I never had a wireless keyboard before.pic.twitter.com/lAQuKLo2um
It seems to have been on sale!
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