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  • On the JIS 2003 model, the more traditional Control position is great (it’s how I map my boards) but the Caps Lock positioning is really good too and makes so much sense with how infrequently it’s used. Very little risk of accidentally hitting it. I wonder why more boards haven’t adopted it.
    by cosmic_cheese
  • I think back in the day (say the late 80s) it became apparent to those in charge that this new IT thing was going to be very important in the workplace, and that it was going to be important to train up people to operate computers.

    Given those in charge were probably one finger typists if that, and befuddled by technology, they would collectively have decided that computers should be standardised so that learnt skills would be transferrable, and therefore they probably imposed ideas like standardised keyboard layouts.

    Of course it turned out that the next generation were totally capable of operating computers without any formal training, were totally fine with different operating systems, different keyboard layouts, different applications etc, and so there was probably lots of wasted effort solving a non-existent problem.

    by cesaref
  • Aaaah, he's got carriage return and enter mixed up. The whole reason for the symbol being an arrow returning to the beginning of the line, is because it's the return key. I love the Canadian enter symbol, an arrow pointing into a box.
    by Sardtok
  • The Copy/Paste thing is kinda funny.

    If you don't already know Cmd+C and Cmd+V, the keyboard gives you zero clue what they do.

    I get why Apple didn't add a bunch of extra keys though. At some point you'd just have a keyboard full of random buttons.

    Still, having a real Delete key on a MacBook would be pretty nice lol.

    by mr_big_bowls
  • No amount of drooling over Apple keyboards will make me forget that Apple's designers didn't add keys for basic functions such as Copy and Paste, Undo and Redo.
    by amelius
  • > There was also the Japanese JIS standard keyboard

    is a particularly humorous instance of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAS_syndrome

    by DroneBetter

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