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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 10:06:40 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   one of my most annoying research projects is "what are the special keys on a dynix-branded WYSE terminal keyboard". The book mentions you can get Dynix keyboards with special keys, but doesn't describe them. I've gone through old online guides, which don't tell you the keys, and THIS PICTURE of dynix has them MERE CENTIMETERS out of shot.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 10:08:23 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     and there's a keyboard-enthusiast thread somewhere where the user is like "hey where do these keyboards come from? $shoppinglink" and another user goes "oh those are dynix-branded wyse keyboards!" and the internet archive didn't capture the link :(

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 10:09:09 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     there's a lot of information about the past I'm always searching for (I'm an archivist!) but this is the closest to being available some simple information has been without being findable.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 10:09:41 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     there's other pictures of these specific keyboards online... and they're all taken from angles were you can't see the special keys

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 10:10:44 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     my best guess is that among the 4 special buttons, there's
     1. New Search
     2. Start Over
     3. Help

     but what order? what's the 4th? no idea. I have done so much research on this one silly little thing.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 10:14:36 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     The way these keys seem to work is they just type some commands you could always type. So like the Start Over button (which is the one I'm most sure of) just types SO, which is a Dynix shortcut for Start Over

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 10:15:04 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     this means the software itself doesn't ever refer to the buttons (besides the fact that not all installations used the custom keyboards: you could use regular wyse terminals just fine), it just refers to SO=Start Over

   • Stacy Miles Haponik (smh@library.love)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 11:29:38 JST Stacy Miles Haponik

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     @foone You could try asking whoever uploaded the Wikipedia image in 2012 if they still have access to the terminal and could get a better angle.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 11:29:38 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Stacy Miles Haponik

     @smh already done so.