My bf brought up this very good point the other day.

Oh, and the boards are sucking tonight. Pick it up, you people.

I think it was Enter first. Or it was on my first computer, maybe. But technically the Enter button's the one over there --------------->

Still says Return if you have a Mac.

hmm I've wondered that too. I always remember the old school computers had return keys and not enter :/

In 1992. Thanks for asking!

It's "enter" in this 2kg-super-tank-late-80's-Cherry (DE) keyboard (using with keyb>ps2 adapter).
These things are still made (with ps2 and windows keys as bonus) and sold for some astonishing $130 wich was almost their price 15 years ago.

I'm not positive, but I think Apples always called that button "Return" and PCs went with the "Enter" monicker.

Well this keyboard doesn't say anything, it just has the carriage return symbol on the key. I'm sensing a conspiracy

Plus I was right!
<img src="http://www.womoteam.de/ans_zx48.jpg">

Commadore 64 was a RETURN button. I'm 100% sure of it.

http://wotsit.thingy.com/haj/images/c64-kb-old.jpg

There's a C64 with a RETURN button. So much for the "Only Macs has Return keys" theory.

Score 1 jillion points for Big Al.

wasn't it originally a 'return' key on the old skool typewriters and/or word-processors? you get to the end of your line, and subsequently the end of the piece of paper in your machine, and then you 'return' to the left side again. i dunno.

Return definitely is a carryover from typewriters. Enter is more accurate for computers.

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Thanks. I feel like I phoned a technical help line.


You people are nerds. :love:

Originally posted by spava
wasn't it originally a 'return' key on the old skool typewriters and/or word-processors? you get to the end of your line, and subsequently the end of the piece of paper in your machine, and then you 'return' to the left side again. i dunno.

Yeah, it's called a carriage return because... that's what happens. And it has the little ''down then across" arrow to show you