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> That the function keys (only F1-F10) are organized in two columns on the left is a comparatively minor difference.

Minor to you maybe. Not minor to anyone like me who baked the two column layout into their user interface! What was I thinking?

https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1983-11-rescan/pag...

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The "12 f keys across the top" layout may be the one lasting thing the Tandy 2000 gave the PC world. It originated with the Tandy 2000's keyboard, which was later used for the Tandy 1000 and adapted by IBM.

Well, okay. 12 f keys and color Windows.

That is amazing! Are you the author of the software? Amazing scan, and the comment is fascinating: "Editor's note: the figures accompanying this article are screen dumps from a monochrome display".

>Amazing scan, and the comment is fascinating

There is an entire Byte magazine archive, which will either blow your nostalgic mind, bring a smile or just make you ponder ─ how much/what has really changed?

https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine

Wow, I didn't know that archive.org was so high-quality. You can just flip through the pages. Extremely well done, I've blocked an evening just for going through that -- thanks for pointing it out.

Yes, I wrote Transend PC and also the PrtScFX program that generated those screenshots. Thanks for the kind words!

Just for fun I dug up the old PrtScFX source code and posted it for any interested historians:

https://github.com/geary/PrtScFX

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