Please re-read what I scribbled. I said "The Model 029 didn't have a caps lock key:" The link I provided included the keyboard layout, which has no caps lock key.
What is the point of using lower case, if you are using a 6 bit (or 18 or 36 bit) computer, in which there are only 64 character positions available. The A-Z and 0-9 takes most of these positions, no need for lower case latter or non-English characters.
If you had a printing device capable of producing lower case and/or international characters, you could use Runoff or similar programs, which accepted input in all uppercase from punched cards or Teletype.
Try that on hundreds of keyboards VS less than two minutes each with my met hod.
It also works on nasty PC boards.
I bought a Harmon Kardon 330B new in 1973 while stationed in Alaska. I orde red the walnut outer case option from H-K. I was pleasantly surprised that they shipped it for free to any Military postal address. It was stolen, alo ng with my other stereo equipment, a few years later.
I bought a used 330C at a thrift store a few years ago. The build quality w as poor, when compared to the B model.
029s were 12-row (bit) and used EBCDIC.
But what a PITA to punch weird combinations.
Not at least those 029s that I have used.
Numerics were 1-of-10 (only one punch in 10 zones) Letters had also an additional punch in 11 or 12 zone. Some special characters might have a third punch in the same columns.
EBCDIC doesn't use 1-of-10 coding for numeric but instead codes them into a 4 bit BCD numbers. Then there are an other 4 bit code (not just
11 and 12 punch), which selects one of the sixteen BCD groups, some of them decoding upper case, lower case, control characters. Since the low group is BCD (not pure 4 bit binary) there are gaps in for instance in upper case alphabet, when the end of the alphabet is in the next BCD groups.The purpose of the Runoff or similar program will solve this issue, It uses only available characters for decoding unprintable or unavailable characters. For instance in a single case input adding a single special character in front of the next character will turn it to uppercase and the characters after that as lowercase, while two special character in front of a line will turn the whole rest of line to uppercase.
Inserting non-printable characters used a system similar to current systems adding Unicode characters using printable hexadecimal in HTML tags.
You weren't using 029s, then.
12-rows. IBM was all EBCDIC at the time.
Then the pictures shown in the link above doesn't either show a 029.
EBCDIC was a quite recent concept and came with IBM S/360 in the
1960's. Punched cards had been used for more than a half century before that.
When do you think the 029 was used?
e Acer Aspire 7 17.3" Gaming Laptop has miniature arrow movement keys and t he numeric keypad has narrow width keys. It's a 17 inch laptop! They have all the room in the world, more than an inch on every side of the keyboard .
ining a straight border all around the keyboard. The tilde key, on the oth er end from the keypad is also a narrow key, most likely because to make it full size would create a tiny bulge, maybe an eighth of an inch. No, that 's too unsightly. Or they could make all the other keys on that edge an ei ghth of an inch wider. No, once again the keys have to be as symmetric as humanly possible.
While IBM was a very big player in the 1950's to 1970's (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) but it did not dominate the world neither did the EBCDIC for S/360 only. Even all other IBM families did not use EBCDIC. .
In those days we used UNIVACs (6 bit FIELDDATA) and Honeywell and DEC computers (7 bit ASCII). Why would we have ordered much more expensive card punches for EBCDIC when much older punches used codes also used for decades in fully mechanical card sorting, which were in use long before electronic computers.
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I disable caps lock by pulling off the key. I can still turn it on by pokin g inside with a pen, but I don't hit it by mistake anymore. Better keyboard s have the right edge of the caps lock key recessed so you don't hit it by mistake when you really wanted the "A" key.
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nnial crowd has helped pushed to widespread adoption. That, and maybe elim inating cords from MP3 players.
I was listening to an NPR show about "typing" on phones vs. voice recogniti on. "THEY" found that voice recognition is way more accurate than typing, a nd faster, too, according to some standardized test for typists. I have bee n trying to get into the habit of talking instead of typing when sending te xts from my android phone. It is remarkable how well it does...even if they 're recording everything I say - but why wouldn't they just record everythi ng I type?
Do you type your sex with your wife or girlfriend (both?) in the "privacy" of your bedroom? Do you type every conversation you have into your smart phone?
The 029 was concurrent with the S/360. There were keypunches before the 029 of course.
But not the 029.
I started using the 029 and S/360 mod75 (scientific model) in '68, in high school.
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llennial crowd has helped pushed to widespread adoption. That, and maybe e liminating cords from MP3 players.
ition. "THEY" found that voice recognition is way more accurate than typing , and faster, too, according to some standardized test for typists. I have been trying to get into the habit of talking instead of typing when sending texts from my android phone. It is remarkable how well it does...even if t hey're recording everything I say - but why wouldn't they just record every thing I type?
yes to both ;)
I shoulda figured as much. ;-)
I thought maybe I'd found a laptop that seems to meet most of my requiremen ts. Full sized cursor keys. Number keypad is full height keys, but not fu ll width. Seems the 4x4 array is the same width as the 3x2 cursor keys, so the cursor keys are a bit wider than the main keys.
But they made the other cursor keys function shift things, home, end, pg up , pg down, insert. It also comes with a fairly lame battery that likely wi ll only power it for an hour.
Doesn't matter so much. It's a Lenovo and after my last experience it will take a lot to get me to buy a Lenovo again.
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