Post 2788588 by mike@social.chinwag.org
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 (DIR) Post #2788380 by bhtooefr@cathoderay.tube
       2019-01-09T02:58:40.631951Z
       
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       An annoyance about the IBM PCjr: this fucking key.
       
 (DIR) Post #2788474 by crlf@niu.moe
       2019-01-09T03:02:18Z
       
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       @bhtooefr it looks a little sad and confused
       
 (DIR) Post #2788588 by mike@social.chinwag.org
       2019-01-09T03:01:31Z
       
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       @bhtooefr that is a very bad key
       
 (DIR) Post #2799151 by davidpgil@floss.social
       2019-01-09T04:12:12Z
       
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       @bhtooefr #retrocomputingproblems 😅
       
 (DIR) Post #2806550 by bhtooefr@cathoderay.tube
       2019-01-09T17:48:20.120982Z
       
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       For those that aren't aware of what's going on here...The PCjr has a very truncated 62-key keyboard with only 62 keys. Many keys are hidden behind modifiers - F1 through F10 are Fn+1 through Fn+0, the navigation keys are Fn+arrows, various keys are mixed into the layout... and then there's the ` and \ keys.` is replaced with Alt+', and ~ with Alt+]. OK, fine, whatever, those aren't used that incredibly often on DOS.However, \ is replaced with Alt+/, and | with Alt+[. (I also got | with Alt+Shift+/ (it's normally available at Shift+\), but that's not the important part.)\ is a character used a ridiculous amount of the time on a DOS 2.x+ machine, which the PCjr is, seeing as it's the path separator... and they put it under a modifier? Aargh.
       
 (DIR) Post #2807170 by seatsafetyswitch@cronk.stenoweb.net
       2019-01-09T18:09:30Z
       
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       @bhtooefr The Tandy 1000, of course, gets this right. And by "right," I mean even more worryingly wrong.
       
 (DIR) Post #2807239 by bhtooefr@cathoderay.tube
       2019-01-09T18:14:58.022159Z
       
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       @seatsafetyswitch You know, I'd give it a pass because it's using a keyboard from a different machine... but that different machine is the Tandy 2000, which is also a MS-DOS machine - although PC-incompatible - and the Tandy 2000 very much does not get a pass.
       
 (DIR) Post #2807268 by DialMforMara@wandering.shop
       2019-01-09T18:14:51Z
       
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       @bhtooefr how do you get to the third one?
       
 (DIR) Post #2807269 by bhtooefr@cathoderay.tube
       2019-01-09T18:16:11.599287Z
       
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       @DialMforMara There's multiple colors of modifiers, the color scheme IBM chose to use was red for Esc (which isn't a modifier), green for Fn, and blue for Alt.This is blue (which the camera didn't pick up very well), so you used Alt with the / key to get \.