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Lisp Machine keyboard close up

Lisp Machine Keyboard

Joey deVilla has posted some closeup pictures of the Lisp Machine that he donated to HackLabTO:

The keyboard is bristling with modifier keys. Yes, we've all got shift and control, but most of us don't have hyper, super, and meta keys. I have a guess as to what the network and local keys do.

HackLabTO's Lisp Machine Keyboard

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Posted by: Paul Betts on February 6, 2009 at 8:52 AM

We do have Hyper and Meta keys...

...but we call them Windows-key and Alt, respectively :)

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Posted by: Mulad on February 6, 2009 at 10:31 AM

Make that Super and Meta

the "Windows" keys in Linux are often mapped as Super.

I'm sure I couldn't handle a Lisp keyboard -- the backspace key is way too small ;-)

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Posted by: Silverman on February 6, 2009 at 10:40 AM

I like the square, triangle, circle keys. Does anyone know what those do? I do not, however, approve of the unholy mixing of Optima with Helvetica.

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Posted by: foo on February 13, 2009 at 5:07 PM

handling

Sure you can handle the Lisp Machine keyboard. Just use the fat RUBOUT key to delete characters.

SQUARE, TRIANGLE, CIRCLE are function keys left for the user.

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