I've never used one, so can someone tell me how the Sinclair
ZX81 keyboard works?
Because I'm seeing like 5 options per key, and only one shift key.
Like the "S" key: It's Save, ARCCOS,. "S", LPRINT, and that graphical symbol. How do you select between those?
I have looked up the manual
this has made me more confused
but the answer seems to be: it's a combination of shift and being modal.
The computer knows when you'd be typing BASIC keywords, so pressing "P" gives you PRINT in that case, no shift required.
you can also do shift-9 to get to graphics mode, which'll let you type the graphics.
and there's some way to get inverse text, but I'm not sure how. it doesn't have lowercase.
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