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by acqq 2199 days ago
> I recall there being no "enter" key, but several keys marked OCK1, OCK2.. etc (Operators Control Key). That was a good piece of design rather than a single "Ctrl" key on other machines.

I was even more impressed with the existence of "Go" key (allowing to signal the successful end of the form entry and to start the action, which was different than just using "enter" to end the entering of one field) on the Burroughs 20 line (with the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergent_Technologies_Operat... ). It's making a lot of endings of "dialogs" much more logical, as well as the movement through the fields -- enter is just moving to the next field, not ending the dialog or doing whatever is selected, like in Windows.

Keyboard:

https://www.smbaker.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/03...

From:

https://www.smbaker.com/restoring-a-convergent-technologies-...