To this day I sometimes press SHIFT+2 for quotation marks.
To this day I sometimes press SHIFT+2 for quotation marks.
I still look for the asterisk key
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What's worse is trying to use some of the C64 emulators on the PC, so you have to remember where the keys USED to be.
Something about seeing that blue screen (not to be confused with the Blue Screen of Death) makes my fingers automatically go to the right keys (or at least hit shift-2 for quotes--probably because we used them so dang much). I guess that's the same instinct that makes me want to type Unix commands when I'm telnetted or SSH'ed into a computer running VMS. Funny thing is, whenever one of my old Commodore buddies fires up an emulator on a PC, he does the same thing.
I never could type as well on a Commodore keyboard as I could on a PC keyboard, but I think that was because of the feel. The Commodore keyboards always felt soft to me.
But it's been so long since I used a Commodore 8-bit every day that I don't find myself hitting shift-2 on anything else. The ghost only comes around when I need it, I guess.
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Isn't a problem in the UK as PC keyboards for us have quotes above 2Originally Posted by Kid Ice
I learned to type on a Commadore 64. Anyone ever use Paws?
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For a long time when I got my first modern computer (Dell in 1996), I always hit shift 7 for apostrophaes, as was the case on my Atari 1200XL. Was it the same on the Commodore?
That explains the Timex-Sinclair keyboard, then. Because of this machine's keyboard I too had trouble adjusting to the regular U.S. layout.Originally Posted by Mayhem
My Atari 8-bit computers have the quote mark above the "2" key and so it's not simply a US vs. UK thing. In fact my old manual typewriter has the quote mark above the "2" key. However, when I used to type tax returns for my dad in the 1980's, his electric typewriters had the quote mark on a separate key. Confusing, to say the least.
Does the C64 keyboard haunt me? Not really but that's because I was an Atari 8-bit user back in the 1980's. The TS1000 keyboard haunts me more than the C64. Typing BASIC programs into the Timex Sinclair was a major chore as I had to constantly look at the keyboard to figure out what key to press. (Which key do I press for the LPRINT command? How do I insert a GOTO statement? ARRRGH!). It was a major mind F*&% because, when I wasn't working on my TS1000 at home, I would work on UNIX systems at school and VMS systems at my job. I remember trying to write code at work and my typing would be screwed up because I was coding on my TS1000 the previous night at home.
Apparantely the old TS1000 keyboard layout has been completely erased from my brain. Recently I powered up a TS1000 emulator and I had to display a diagram of the TS1000 keyboard in order to figure out how to type on the bloody thing. Dang it's frustrating to type on the TS1000! :/
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Yep. That key isn't commonly used though...shift 2 is used a lot because it is part of the load command (load "whatever",8)Originally Posted by boatofcar
I use shift 2 constantly. Sometimes I'll also reach for * in the wrong place too.