for some reason i remember a Help key on computer keyboards

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LP0 ON FIRE: Jan 25, 2006; _{beep boop}

anyone remember this?

# ? Jun 5, 2015 16:27

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med school head: Apr 17, 2012

maybe it could've helped you post better human being

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# ? Jun 5, 2015 16:29

LP0 ON FIRE: Jan 25, 2006; _{beep boop}

gargle chome posted:

maybe it could've helped you post better human being

mmm i don't remember this being on a keyboard i used when i joined the forums

# ? Jun 5, 2015 16:30

newreply.php: Dec 24, 2009; Pillbug

it was one of the f keys but im not saying which 1

# ? Jun 5, 2015 16:47

LP0 ON FIRE: Jan 25, 2006; _{beep boop}

i think it was F2

# ? Jun 5, 2015 16:57

GameCube: Nov 21, 2006

anybody else used to have one of those little plastic frames that went over the f keys so you knew how to do a search in WordPerfect

# ? Jun 5, 2015 18:16

Zlodo: Nov 25, 2006

amiga/atari st had help keys

# ? Jun 5, 2015 18:27

Sweevo: Nov 8, 2007; i sometimes throw cables away

i mean straight into the bin without spending 10+ years in the box of might-come-in-handy-someday first

im a fucking monster

so did sun

# ? Jun 5, 2015 18:28

fuck. marry. t-rex: Jan 23, 2014; Lipstick Apathy

gargle chome posted:

maybe it could've helped you post better human being

Mods? ?

# ? Jun 5, 2015 18:37

Beeftweeter: Jun 28, 2005; OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN

Sweevo posted:

so did sun

props

# ? Jun 5, 2015 18:39

Valeyard: Mar 30, 2012; Grimey Drawer

help

# ? Jun 5, 2015 19:00

LP0 ON FIRE: Jan 25, 2006; _{beep boop}

Sweevo posted:

so did sun

the diamond key. that's p cool

# ? Jun 5, 2015 19:08

LP0 ON FIRE: Jan 25, 2006; _{beep boop}

Valeyard posted:

help

help computer

# ? Jun 5, 2015 19:08

med school head: Apr 17, 2012

gently caress. marry. t-rex posted:

Mods? ?

No one wants you in fyad and no one wants you here. How sad. lol

# ? Jun 5, 2015 19:13

Notorious b.s.d.: Jan 25, 2003; by Reene

LP0 ON FIRE posted:

the diamond key. that's p cool

that's the meta key

# ? Jun 5, 2015 19:41

pram: Jun 10, 2001

gargle chome posted:

No one wants you in fyad and no one wants you here. How sad. lol

lol

# ? Jun 5, 2015 20:01

LP0 ON FIRE: Jan 25, 2006; _{beep boop}

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

that's the meta key

that's the best name for a key ever

# ? Jun 5, 2015 20:05

echinopsis: Apr 13, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

or hyper

# ? Jun 5, 2015 20:24

Broken Machine: Oct 22, 2010

what's the blank key just left of f1 for on that?

# ? Jun 5, 2015 20:49

pram: Jun 10, 2001

this key intentionally left blank

# ? Jun 5, 2015 20:56

Notorious b.s.d.: Jan 25, 2003; by Reene

Broken Machine posted:

what's the blank key just left of f1 for on that?

i seem to recall it's still an escape key, like on a pc. not sure why it's unlabeled.

possible reason: historically, nothing used it in sunos/solaris

# ? Jun 7, 2015 04:50