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Rubbed up the wrong way
We receive a shocking email from regular contributor Dave Jakeman. ‘Back in the days of Digital, mysterious keys were commonplace: keyboards had supplementary labels for use with Digital’s current word processor. These included interesting terms such as “Dead Key”, “Abbrv”, “Hyph Pull”, and “Rub Sent”,’ he recalls.
The EDT editor, however, did not get key annotations, and so Digital produced a thin, rubber overlay. ‘They were slightly tacky, unpleasant to the touch, and became known as “keypad condoms”, at which point Digital stopped producing them,’ Dave recalls.
If anyone has one of these, send us a picture.
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