the purpose of the special keys on the keyboard, and list the most frequently used pointing devices.?
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Special keys are either shortcuts to frequently used features or commands of the computer system.\nIn PC's for instance, the key with the Windows logo opens the "start menu". In a Mac there is the Apple key that brings up the Apple menu. \nOther special keys, such as the Ctrl key, allow for extending the number of commands or instructions available to the user through the keyboarde.g.: pressing at the same time ctrl and "c" whatever text is selected on screen moves to a temporary storage (process called copy) and can be inserted on another text by pressing together ctrl and "v" (called paste).\nThe most common pointing device is the mouse (for desktop PC), next are the Touchpad (surface where you slide your fingertip to move the cursor) usually for laptops/notebooks and the stylus, a pen-like device that requires a touch-enabled screen or a special pad.
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http://www.kamban.com.au/prodtamkbd.htm\n\nhttp://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/keyboards/kbdintam.htm
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If you have an extended keyboard there should be a delete key with an X inside a box on it, just under the "help" key. That is the forward-delete key.
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input devices\ncds , keyboard , scanner web camera , mic. etc\noutput devices \nprinter , moniter , speakers , fax , etc\n i hope u know about them or u can search on the net u will get loads and loads of info on these
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>_> That was a real question?!\n\nOK, almost all laptops have a Fn or Function key, and the IOP,JKL,and BNM< keys work as a keypad when the Fn key is pressed.
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It all depends on what kind of computer you have and what kind of key board?
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I use them all the time!!!\n\nWhen I'm on Google and decide something I'm searching for would be better put into quotation marks, home gets me to the front of the sentence, end gets me to the end.  So much faster than using a mouse.\n\nPup and Pdown I use when I don't feel like reaching for my mouse.  I know, how lazy.  But I already have my hands on the keyboard, so I'll pdown to look at a website without having to scroll or hold down anything on the mouse or even spin a wheel.\n\nInsert is nice when working in MSWord.\n\nDelete is really the only thing I don't use... just when I need to shut something down that isn't working.
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Doing "this"? Typing at your computer keyboard? It might be overuse - do you have a clerical job?
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there is a key - (on the top row holding down shift you get: QWERTYUIOP{}| ....that last key is a vertical line
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The QWERTY keyboard was designed ergonomicallyso that the most often used keys would be appropriately placed for easy reach.  The other (not so) big layout is where the keys are arranged in alphabetical order.  I don't recomend this as a solution.  Here is another to investigate as well: Dvorak
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Esc (The ESCAPE key) ;)\nGood One!
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Hi Lauren!  Lauren here, lol!!!!  (yes thats my real name too).  the answer is........cdefgabc  - not to mention the sharps, flats, etc. which are the black keys.  Need more info?  e-mail me.  I too have a keyboard with 36 keys.  and I can go more into detail.   Good Luck Lauren,  sincerely, Lauren.....p.s. luv yer name!!!!!  LMAO !!
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The Non-sensical QWERTY Key Arrangement\nWhen initially introduced, the typewriters were utilized by typing with only two fingers. The development of 10 finger typing is attributed to a Mrs. L. V. Longley in 1878. This was followed shortly afterwards by the concept of "touch typing" attributed to Frank E. McGurrin, a federal court clerk in Salt Lake City, whereby typists would type without looking at the keys, having memorized their locations.\n\nThese new techniques, and some famous typing competitions, demonstrated the worth of the new machine and led to greater acceptance. However, proficient typists easily caused the typewriter mechanisms to jam. \n\nTo address this, Christopher Sholes (one of the original inventors of the typewriter) had an ingenious idea. He discovered that many English words contained combinations of letters next to each other in the alphabet, for instance ABBey, DEFEct, HIGh, etc., which occurred frequently. With the help of a teacher called Amos Desmore, Sholes determined the combinations that occurred most frequently, split them and placed the component letters far away on the keyboard of his machine. And this is how the QWERTY layout was born. (The layout is referred to as “QWERTY” because of the arrangement of the keys in the upper row).\n\nAs a result of this rearrangement, the keys that were used most frequently were not as easily accessible to the typist. Thus, the QWERTY layout effectively reduced the speed at which human users could type, thereby preventing their jamming the mechanism too often. \n\nThe Dvorak Layout\nThe non-sensical QWERTY layout caused many different layouts to be invented. The most notable one is named Dvorak after its inventor, August Dvorak, an early ergonomics researcher at the University of Washington. In 1936, Dvorak analyzed the English language to determine which letters were most frequently used. He then rearranged the keyboard layout so that these keys were positioned on the home row, that is, the row under the fingers of a typist in the rest position. By grouping the keys so that the most used keys were closest to the typist's fingers, reach was minimized and typing speed was increased. \n\nThe introduction of the Dvorak layout, despite its efficiency, was not successful because the QWERTY layout had become a defacto standard and no typewriter manufacturer wished to introduce a product that would require its users to have to retrain the manner in which they worked. \n\nThe Advent of the Personal Computer\nPerhaps the most attention paid to the keyboard as a human interface was by IBM in 1984, and was in regard to the compatibility of the layout of the Personal Computer that it had just developed with the layout of the Selectric™ typewriter. The Personal Computer had no jamming problems and its keyboard could handle even the fastest typist. Therefore the issue of separating the keys did not pose itself.\n\nMoreover, no attention seems to have been paid by IBM to the fact that the newly developed Personal Computer, was going to be used primarily by people with little or no typing skills and to whom therefore the issue of the "QWERTY legacy" was unimportant. \n\nBecause of this, IBM could have redesigned the layout of the Personal Computer keyboard to a more ergonomic and user friendly layout. Unfortunately, IBM missed this wonderful opportunity and so it is that a keyboard layout designed over a century ago, for a different technological situation, is in use on over 500 million computers today.\n\n[Thanks for asking this question! It's fun to read the history again.  I remember my grandmother had one of those old typewriters with arms for each letter to strike the page. You could really jam those up if you went too fast. Too bad IBM missed the opportunity to change the layout.]
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ABSOLUTELY!!!  It is funny you ask that question, because I don't know what the keys are anymore.  If people ask me where a "key" is located anymore, you can watch me actually move my hands ( in the correct manner ) and then tell you where the key is ... my brain has not memorized the keyboard, but my fingers sure have ... :)
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mouse, keyboard, scanner.
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Well for starters, all keyboards are a standard configuration.\nIf yould be a rather big pain in the butt to have to teach yourself where all the new key placing's are.
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it is a "Home Key" for touch typists...so those who can type without looking at the keys can get there baring on the kbrd without looking at it.