Hi :) Oh wow yeah. Those "green screens" where you could see the individual dots making up the screen. The strange greeness a tunnel through to far away places. Regards from Tom :)
>________________________________ > From: James Knott <james.kn...@rogers.com> >To: LibreOffice <users@global.libreoffice.org> >Sent: Friday, 15 February 2013, 16:05 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] page down in word processors > >Brian Barker wrote: >> I think you are missing the different functions of the two sorts of software. > >Page Up & Page Down go back to the days of dumb terminals connected to a >mainframe or minicomputer and a page referred to a full screen of data. Back >in the late '70s & early '80s I used to support some terminals connected to a >Data General Nova minicomputer, where all the editing was done on the Nova. >About the only editing you could do directly on the terminal was inserting & >deleting characters. The page keys would move the display through the >document, with only a small amount of overlap, that is with a Page Down, the >bottom line on the old screen would become the top line on the new. The >reverse occurred with Page Up. There was no mouse either, just cursor keys, >though another system I worked on used a joy stick. > > > >-- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org >Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > > > > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
