Re: CAPS LOCK

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From: Alan J Rosenthal
Date: Sun, 18 May 1986 00:29

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In article <1071@ellie.UUCP> colonel@ellie.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) writes:
>If there's a CAPS LOCK (or a SHIFT LOCK), there ought to be a signal light
>too.  I don't care how much it costs!

Humorous anecdote: There is an apple(tm)-copy made by a local electronics
store; they purchased a caps lock button with an indicator light on it, but
they use the indicator light for something else.  Very cheap of them and
highly confusing!

--
Alan J Rosenthal
{linus|decvax}!utzoo!utcs!flaps, {ihnp4|allegra}!cbosgd!utcs!flaps

"You can't expect me to do a decent reincarnation without orange smoke!"

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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utcs!flaps
From: flaps@utcs.uucp (Alan J Rosenthal)
Newsgroups: net.info-terms,net.internat
Subject: Re: CAPS LOCK
Message-ID: <1244@utcs.uucp>
Date: Sat, 17-May-86 20:29:17 EDT
Article-I.D.: utcs.1244
Posted: Sat May 17 20:29:17 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 17-May-86 20:48:24 EDT
References: <2071@cbosgd.UUCP> <787@bentley.UUCP> <1071@ellie.UUCP>
Reply-To: flaps@utcs.UUCP (Alan J Rosenthal)
Organization: University of Toronto
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Keywords: keyboard, standard, ANSI

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