On 8/2/2015 6:13 PM, clipka wrote:
> Am 02.08.2015 um 14:30 schrieb Stephen:
>
>> When I used to work for a living. It was fun working on a machine that
>> had lost its CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT
>> The keyboard would revert to US settings but the letters didn't. ;-)
>> Remembering where the  backslash, at sign and inverted comma keys were,
>> was a pain.
>
> Tell me about it. The German keyboard layout shares exactly five(!)
> punctuation character locations with the US one, AND has two letter keys
> swapped.
>
> I never bothered to try and remember the US locatin of characters. All I
> cared about was that typing "kezb gr" (sic!) would usually fix the mess.
>

Nor me. Fortunately my fingers are not directly connected to my brain. 
They did it themselves. Ask me and I can't tell you but put me in front 
of a k/board and it happens. :-)
>
> And then there was the keyboard of my first own PC. One of the things I
> did pretty early after unboxing was to install some Norton Commander
> clone which, as you may recall, made heavy use of the function keys as
> hotkeys for important stuff; I knew most of them by heart.
>

That passed me by. Norton became a resource hog and I stopped using it 
early on.

> So a moment later I was sitting in front of the thing with a puzzled
> expression on my face, struggling to find the F7 key.
>
> "Okay, let's do this systematically," I thought, and went through the
> function key row: "Here's F1, F2, F3, F4, F5, F6, F5, F8... Wait, *WHAT?!*"
>
>

LOL. that I can appreciate. :-)

> The good news was that yes, the second F5 key behaved exactly like the
> good old F7 key. Phew! :)
>

Oh! I wonder how that could happen. :-)

> Also, the keyboard was a genuine Cherry keyboard (albeit branded
> differently by the OEM) with easily removable keycaps, so a letter to
> the OEM and a few days later I was able to swap the keycap for a
> properly labeled one.
>

A good ending. :-)

> I think I still have the F5 keycap somewhere.
>

On a chain around your neck? ;-)

-- 

Regards
     Stephen

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