In article <87vb6v241c.fsf@usenet.ankman.de>, Andreas Kohlbach   
    wrote:   
   > Your Name wrote on 13. January 2016:   
   > > In article <87ziw95b4b.fsf@usenet.ankman.de>, Andreas Kohlbach   
   > >  wrote:   
   > >>   
   > >> Wasn't there a certain key to press that it would print the key you   
   > >> actually type on the screen?   
   > >   
   > > Possibly - I really couldn't be bothered playing with the crappy things   
   > > long enough to find out / remember. The commands were printed on the   
   > > "keys" themselves though.   
   >   
   > Yep, I once saw it. I was amazed when I visited the UK in 1986 with other   
   > students and saw the kids of the host family had one. Had no idea why   
   > words are printed on the keys.   
      
      
   Yep. It wasn't possible to simply type "I" and "F" for the IF   
   statement, you were *forced* to press Shift-Function-M (or whatever the   
   key combination was). That silliness and the ridiculously bad   
   "keyboards" (flat membrane keyboards on the ZX80 and ZX81, and small   
   rubberised keys on the Spectrum) made trying to program the toys a task   
   in futility and stupidity.   
      
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