Subj : Turn off Google AI Summar
To   : Barry Martin
From : Ed Vance
Date : Fri Dec 06 2024 18:57:56



> Hi Ed!

> He obviously wasn't in 'control'!  What seems naturally-we-do-it-that- 
> way to one person isn't so to another.  ...I could of understand not
> equating "Ctrl" with "control" (or at least immediately).  

> Even that function  isn't immediately obvious: with a typewriter one does
> not want two keys pressed simultaneously: causes the keys to jam.

> It helps to have someone available to help get used to the machine.  
> ...Was thinking on my DEC Rainbow 100 there were two floppy drives.  The
> top one the floppy was inserted face up but the bottom one face down. I
> don't recall who immediately obvious that was -- half-recalling arrows
> pointing up and down.

> I'm semi-trained to think ^M as for a page break.  OTOH commands are not
> consistent: ^K will 'kill' a line in nano (command-line text editor) yet
> in SEDIT which I'm using now to reply ^Y deletes the line and ^K does 
> some other function.

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> ... Hold that elevator!
> I can't: it's too big!
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I didn't write about the correct keys my fellow worker was trying to press.
It was CTRL G the Bell, used to wake up the server on the other end of the
line.
Ed
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