WEIRD Retro Computer Cursor Key Configurations

[@8_Bit]

Fun stuff, I also had a video planned on this topic that I never got around to making :) I think one reason early cursor key layouts were so bad was that apart from the Commodore PET, most of them actually didn't let you move the cursor freely around the screen. Most were terrible line-based editors, or other weird hybrids like the Apple II that were still pretty awful if you tried to use them. We were spoiled by the C= machines' full-screen editor.

[@RDKLInc]

Thanks so much, and I love your videos! Yeah it’s such a strange thing. And I keep finding more! You’d think we would get to the end of retro at some point but there’s always more weird computers it seems!

[@bookdork]

What a great collection of wonderful oddball computers. Thanks for sharing.

[@RDKLInc]

Thanks Antony! Glad you liked it. Thought it would do better…I guess it’s sort of an odd subject

[@greatwhiteretro]

Is the up-left key a Home key on Soviet PCs?