10-15-14 12:41 Roger Nelson wrote to Ed Vance about Windows shutdown   
      
    RN> @MSGID: <543EF0BD.13480.windowsa@capcity2.synchro.net>   
    RN> On Wed Oct-15-2014 00:26, Ed Vance (1:2320/105.1) wrote to   
    RN> Roger Nelson:   
   Howdy! Roger,   
      
    EV> I took a look at the control+alt+delete page on Wikepedia and David   
    EV> Bradley at IBM was given credit for changing 'soft reboot' from   
    EV> ctrl+alt+esc to ctrl+alt+delete because he found it too easy to   
    EV> accidently hit those keys on the original IBM PC Keyboard and cause   
    EV> a reboot to happen.   
      
    RN> That makes no sense.   
      
   I understand nonsense, I have more of that than regular sense.   
   When it comes to being Sane, I'm with the "IN" Crowd.   
      
    EV> Do You remember the Function Keys were on the Left of the Keyboard   
    EV> in two vertical rows of five keys each instead of at the top where   
    EV> they are located now-a-days.   
      
    RN> No.  The keyboard I used at that time had the Function heys at   
    RN> the top.   
      
   Same here, the first IBM Compatiable Personal Computer I got to lay my   
   hands on at work had the Function Keys at the top also.   
      
      
    EV> A relative used a keyboard that had those keys on the side on his   
    EV> DOS 1.25 box.   
      
   I saw that keyboard around 1990 or so.   
      
    RN> I began with DOS 2.1 and switched to the OS/2 December 1992   
    RN> beta, which was free for all.  I really liked it, but it became   
    RN> obvious that IBM was going to drop it a couple of years later.   
      
   It was DOS 2.11 for my first experience, and I really liked it!   
   The XT had a 10MB HDD.   
      
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