View Full Version : What's the "Scroll Lock" key on my computer for?
jimnms
10-08-2003, 02:38 PM
HEHE, I found this interesting:
http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mscrolllock.html
It has been a while since I've used that key.
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It turns on a led light on your keyboard http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/images/smilies/smile.gif
You could use it to scroll text down the screen.
If interested, go to a spreadsheet and use the arrow keys with scroll lock on and off see how it affected.
jimnms
10-09-2003, 02:17 AM
I know what the scroll lock key does(did). I've been using computers since the DOS 1.0 days.
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wow jim, i thought dos 1 was gone before you were born!
jimnms
10-10-2003, 02:53 PM
Originally posted by Cris:
wow jim, i thought dos 1 was gone before you were born!
MS-DOS 1.0 didn't come out until July 1981. My first computer was a TRS-80 which used RS-DOS. My dad was into computers and I got the hand-me-downs when he'd get the new stuff.
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