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    From Jeff Gaines@21:1/5 to All on Tue Aug 15 19:35:01 2023
    I have just finished a lolly and it made the shift key sticky, while I was cleaning it with a damp finger a message popped up "Do you want to turn
    sticky keys on?".

    How did it know?

    --
    Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
    Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists
    or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.

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  • From SH@21:1/5 to Jeff Gaines on Tue Aug 15 21:20:40 2023
    On 15/08/2023 20:35, Jeff Gaines wrote:

    I have just finished a lolly and it made the shift key sticky, while I
    was cleaning it with a damp finger a message popped up "Do you want to
    turn sticky keys on?".

    How did it know?

    you have to press the shift key five times in quick sucession to then
    get the pop up about enabling sticky keys.

    Its an accessibility feature for people who have accessibility
    requirements and struggle with a standard keyboard.

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  • From Jeff Gaines@21:1/5 to All on Tue Aug 15 20:47:49 2023
    On 15/08/2023 in message <kk2673Fl8cmU3@mid.individual.net> Andy Burns
    wrote:

    SH wrote:

    Jeff Gaines wrote:

    I have just finished a lolly and it made the shift key sticky, while I >>>was cleaning it with a damp finger a message popped up "Do you want to >>>turn sticky keys on?".

    How did it know?

    you have to press the shift key five times in quick sucession to then get >>the pop up about enabling sticky keys.

    ITHKT!

    :-)

    --
    Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
    We chose to do this not because it is easy but because we thought it would
    be easy.

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  • From Andy Burns@21:1/5 to All on Tue Aug 15 21:41:08 2023
    SH wrote:

    Jeff Gaines wrote:

    I have just finished a lolly and it made the shift key sticky, while I
    was cleaning it with a damp finger a message popped up "Do you want to
    turn sticky keys on?".

    How did it know?

    you have to press the shift key five times in quick sucession to then
    get the pop up about enabling sticky keys.

    ITHKT!

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  • From Adrian Caspersz@21:1/5 to Jeff Gaines on Wed Aug 16 13:23:16 2023
    On 15/08/2023 20:35, Jeff Gaines wrote:

    I have just finished a lolly and it made the shift key sticky, while I
    was cleaning it with a damp finger a message popped up "Do you want to
    turn sticky keys on?".

    How did it know?


    My BBC Micro had a CLI inside its ROM based View word processor. Out of complete boredom as a spotty 16 year old, I took some entertainment from entering silly commands.

    WHEELCHAIR
    Invalid Command


    (sorry)


    There was a proper Easter Egg'ish 'Daytona' command in View.

    Who remembers what that did?


    --
    Adrian C

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  • From Jeff Gaines@21:1/5 to Caspersz on Wed Aug 16 13:07:10 2023
    On 16/08/2023 in message <kk3tdkFu0d2U1@mid.individual.net> Adrian
    Caspersz wrote:

    On 15/08/2023 20:35, Jeff Gaines wrote:

    I have just finished a lolly and it made the shift key sticky, while I
    was cleaning it with a damp finger a message popped up "Do you want to
    turn sticky keys on?".

    How did it know?


    My BBC Micro had a CLI inside its ROM based View word processor. Out of >complete boredom as a spotty 16 year old, I took some entertainment from >entering silly commands.

    WHEELCHAIR
    Invalid Command


    (sorry)


    There was a proper Easter Egg'ish 'Daytona' command in View.

    Who remembers what that did?

    Yesterday's spotty 16 year olds are todays nerds :-)

    --
    Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
    The first five days after the weekend are the hardest.

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  • From Theo@21:1/5 to Adrian Caspersz on Wed Aug 16 14:35:03 2023
    Adrian Caspersz <email@here.invalid> wrote:
    On 15/08/2023 20:35, Jeff Gaines wrote:

    I have just finished a lolly and it made the shift key sticky, while I
    was cleaning it with a damp finger a message popped up "Do you want to
    turn sticky keys on?".

    How did it know?


    My BBC Micro had a CLI inside its ROM based View word processor. Out of complete boredom as a spotty 16 year old, I took some entertainment from entering silly commands.

    WHEELCHAIR
    Invalid Command

    In my case it was an RM Nimbus 186, and you could name your program (I
    forget what language) 'Monkey', in which case you got:

    Performing Monkey


    Simple pleasures...

    There was a proper Easter Egg'ish 'Daytona' command in View.

    Who remembers what that did?

    I never heard about that one.

    Theo

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