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What purpose did the lower-right Enter key serve on original Mac 128k keyboard?


The original USA release of the Macintosh came with the M0110 keyboard. Somewhat famous for not including arrow keys because Steve Jobs wanted to encourage developers to use the mouse instead, it a...

Somewhat famous for not including arrow keys because Steve Jobs wanted to encourage developers to use the mouse instead, it also fit the compact size of the original Mac by only being slightly wider than the Mac itself and thus did not include a numeric keypad. A year or so later, the Mac Plus would come with the M0110A keyboard which added the arrow keys and a numeric keypad. As well, when the Mac Plus M0110A came out, the numeric keypad's 'Enter' key had a different code despite the original one in question no longer being present.

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