March 6 2007 • 7:49 PM
InDesignSecrets Podcast 044
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- Adobe CS3 Announcement
- David at the Creative Suite Show; Anne-Marie in Duluth
- Skewing text and objects; skew vs. shear
- Working around the Section Prefix annoyance
- Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Simulate Paper Color
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InDesign Conference in New York, New York (June 4–6, 2007)
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The term “open apple” comes from the original Apple computer (mine was an Apple IIe). They were two command keys with different functions. The closed apple (I don’t remember which side of the spacebar) was a black Apple logo. The open apple (the other side of the spacebar) was the outline of the Apple logo we see now.
Wow. Thanks, Debbie, for that info. A little more researching finds a geek’s paradise of background on this.
The Open Apple key did not get its name because it has a bite in it — but I do think you are correct about people calling it that becuase they learned the Mac in high school. Or at least, I think you’re close. I learned the Apple II in High School to write my essay for my college applications. The keyboard on the Apple II computers had an open apple key to the left of the spacebar (white outline with no fill) and a closed apple key to the right of the spacebar (solid white apple).
I like to call it Command (I’m self-taught) but I try to say Apple key. I have also heard it referred to as the Fan, Clover-leaf, Butterfly key.
Great. I just reallized Debbie beat me to it. Oops.
No problem, Ron. We love getting everyone’s perspectives here. I wasn’t lucky enough to use an Apple II. I went from Xerox Alto to EMSAI 8080, to Commodore PET, to IBM XT (if I recall), to the Mac 128K. Ah, for the days of booting up the machine by toggling in binary!
The “Command” key thing is really interesting to me because I don’t think any keyboard uses that word on it. I’ve been saying “Command” for 20+ years, but why? It seems like it’s a button without a true name. Sigh.