This isn’t a CIDU for me. The baby has been drawing the floor, hears mom coming and wants to “undo” the drawing. What he “says” is the symbol on an Apple keyboard for command z, or “undo.” Just as in the title of this post…
Targuman nailed it @1, but I’m still surprised that Paul Trap decided to go with the MacOS key instead of Windows. I think the percentage of Mac users who would understand “Crtl+Z” is much higher than the percentage of Windows users who would recognize “⌘Z“.
P.S. In German, “Alt” is “Alt“, and “Shift” is just an arrow (pointing up), but they label the “Ctrl” (control) key with a very ugly “Strg” (for “Steuerung“).
I’m not surprised the Shift key just uses the symbol. “Umschalt” is hard to fit on a key.
P.P.S. Besides the “keyboard literacy” factor, the number of Windows users is much higher than the number of Mac users.
@ Powers – I’ve always thought of it as the “Schalt” key, but I think you are right that the “correct” name of the key is “Umschalt“. However, it may also be a “design” factor: I have a couple of US-English keyboards that don’t use the word “Shift”, “Enter”, or “Tab”, even though they would easily fit.
@Kilby: Be that as it may, but I’ll betcha we MAC users are much happier with our computers than are PC users!
This brought up for me a memory of a web video series, later taken over onto one of the streaming services, called something like “CTRL”. Users with a keyboard that had magical real-world powers found that certain CTRL sequences had real-world effects analogous to what they do on the computers.
Later: looked it up, and there is a Wikipedia article. It corrects some of my above recollections: it was originally an NBC project (albeit still for web, not network broadcast); and it starred Tony Hale, whom I may not have recognized for anything else at the time, hence did not recall him as part of this.
The wikipedia article has a table of the episodes, giving the key(s) involved in each one, and how the operation of those keys affected “real”-world features and actions. CTRL-Z was the 3rd episode, with this summary: “Stuart breaks into his office after being fired to find that his old, sticky keyboard has been replaced.
Featured Keystroke: Undo”
I so well remember BobMyFormerBoss saying to me, way back when we first began having computers (MACs) in our Library . . . “Don’t you wish sometimes that ControlZ worked in real life, too?”
I was hoping this would be on YouTube, but no luck. I’d really like to see it . . .
But why does the baby want to undo the picture?
And what’s he drawing with? Toothpaste?
As an old-line Macintosh user since childhood, I laughed at this one.
Way back in the pre-OS X days, Apple’s command key didn’t say “command” with the ⌘ like it does now. It still had the ⌘ cloverleaf on the right side, but on the left was an outline of the Apple logo. The Apple logo was used for the command key, sans ⌘, as far back as the Apple IIe and into the early Macintosh era (with a brief re-disappearance of the ⌘ on the Newton PDA keyboard, to match the on-screen Newton keyboard). This led to me calling the command key the “Apple Doily Key” for years, into college age even. The Powerbook G4 might have been the last Macintosh to sport the Apple logo command key, I think.
It’s a Mac key because it’s an artist situation. If the kid was a graphic designer, then it’d be Windows.
@Kilby – Weighing in on Windows vs Mac. Windows more widespread in the general pop but I’m aware that Mac is much more common in the arts. Perhaps the artist (Trap) and his friends all use Mac so “⌘Z“ is more natural for him.
Yes. He wants to undo because Mom will punish him.
For drawing/editing, Mac is the best computer.
I’m not willing to splurge, so I use Windows, but there’s a more substantial amout of editing software for Mac.
I have a Mac but still didn’t pick up that the baby was verbalizing Command-Z. Then again I am not real detail oriented.
@Mark M, actually, I’m not at all sure what the baby is literally doing or saying. Though it must be somehow conveying the Commamd-Z idea…
I’ve spent a lot of time using both Windows and Mac computers. The absolute best thing about Macintosh computers is you open a terminal and you get a Unix prompt! All your favorite Unix utilities are still there: touch, grep, vim, curl, tracert, ping etc. (Windows has versions of some of them, of varying usefulness.)
I haven’t used a Mac in a long time, but the “symbol Z” was good enough. My keyboard is pretty old, dating back to my second PC†. The right-side shift key is worn so much that only 3/4 of the arrow and no text remains visible. Its left counterpart is nearly pristine. Conversely, the left Ctrl key is worn blank, while the right is like new.
† When the Lenovo died, I got a refurbished replacement. I didn’t note at the time that it didn’t come with a keyboard. So I had to continue using the old one. When the HP also died†† it did come with a keyboard, but I didn’t like it. It was very lightweight and had no rubber feet on it, so it slid around on the desk. But worst was that it is the “Fat Enter Key” design. I’ve been using the standard keyboard since the 80s, so no.
†† I was able to find a cheap replacement motherboard for the HP, and subsequently brought it back to life. I tried to find one for the Lenovo, but those are nearly impossible to get, being an older model. I might yet find some other MB that can substitute, if I get motivated.
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This isn’t a CIDU for me. The baby has been drawing the floor, hears mom coming and wants to “undo” the drawing. What he “says” is the symbol on an Apple keyboard for command z, or “undo.” Just as in the title of this post…
Targuman nailed it @1, but I’m still surprised that Paul Trap decided to go with the MacOS key instead of Windows. I think the percentage of Mac users who would understand “Crtl+Z” is much higher than the percentage of Windows users who would recognize “⌘Z“.
P.S. In German, “Alt” is “Alt“, and “Shift” is just an arrow (pointing up), but they label the “Ctrl” (control) key with a very ugly “Strg” (for “Steuerung“).
I’m not surprised the Shift key just uses the symbol. “Umschalt” is hard to fit on a key.
P.P.S. Besides the “keyboard literacy” factor, the number of Windows users is much higher than the number of Mac users.
@ Powers – I’ve always thought of it as the “Schalt” key, but I think you are right that the “correct” name of the key is “Umschalt“. However, it may also be a “design” factor: I have a couple of US-English keyboards that don’t use the word “Shift”, “Enter”, or “Tab”, even though they would easily fit.
@Kilby: Be that as it may, but I’ll betcha we MAC users are much happier with our computers than are PC users!
This brought up for me a memory of a web video series, later taken over onto one of the streaming services, called something like “CTRL”. Users with a keyboard that had magical real-world powers found that certain CTRL sequences had real-world effects analogous to what they do on the computers.
Later: looked it up, and there is a Wikipedia article. It corrects some of my above recollections: it was originally an NBC project (albeit still for web, not network broadcast); and it starred Tony Hale, whom I may not have recognized for anything else at the time, hence did not recall him as part of this.
The wikipedia article has a table of the episodes, giving the key(s) involved in each one, and how the operation of those keys affected “real”-world features and actions. CTRL-Z was the 3rd episode, with this summary: “Stuart breaks into his office after being fired to find that his old, sticky keyboard has been replaced.
Featured Keystroke: Undo”
I so well remember BobMyFormerBoss saying to me, way back when we first began having computers (MACs) in our Library . . . “Don’t you wish sometimes that ControlZ worked in real life, too?”
I was hoping this would be on YouTube, but no luck. I’d really like to see it . . .
But why does the baby want to undo the picture?
And what’s he drawing with? Toothpaste?
As an old-line Macintosh user since childhood, I laughed at this one.
Way back in the pre-OS X days, Apple’s command key didn’t say “command” with the ⌘ like it does now. It still had the ⌘ cloverleaf on the right side, but on the left was an outline of the Apple logo. The Apple logo was used for the command key, sans ⌘, as far back as the Apple IIe and into the early Macintosh era (with a brief re-disappearance of the ⌘ on the Newton PDA keyboard, to match the on-screen Newton keyboard). This led to me calling the command key the “Apple Doily Key” for years, into college age even. The Powerbook G4 might have been the last Macintosh to sport the Apple logo command key, I think.
It’s a Mac key because it’s an artist situation. If the kid was a graphic designer, then it’d be Windows.
@Kilby – Weighing in on Windows vs Mac. Windows more widespread in the general pop but I’m aware that Mac is much more common in the arts. Perhaps the artist (Trap) and his friends all use Mac so “⌘Z“ is more natural for him.
Yes. He wants to undo because Mom will punish him.
For drawing/editing, Mac is the best computer.
I’m not willing to splurge, so I use Windows, but there’s a more substantial amout of editing software for Mac.
I have a Mac but still didn’t pick up that the baby was verbalizing Command-Z. Then again I am not real detail oriented.
@Mark M, actually, I’m not at all sure what the baby is literally doing or saying. Though it must be somehow conveying the Commamd-Z idea…
I’ve spent a lot of time using both Windows and Mac computers. The absolute best thing about Macintosh computers is you open a terminal and you get a Unix prompt! All your favorite Unix utilities are still there: touch, grep, vim, curl, tracert, ping etc. (Windows has versions of some of them, of varying usefulness.)
I haven’t used a Mac in a long time, but the “symbol Z” was good enough. My keyboard is pretty old, dating back to my second PC†. The right-side shift key is worn so much that only 3/4 of the arrow and no text remains visible. Its left counterpart is nearly pristine. Conversely, the left Ctrl key is worn blank, while the right is like new.
† When the Lenovo died, I got a refurbished replacement. I didn’t note at the time that it didn’t come with a keyboard. So I had to continue using the old one. When the HP also died†† it did come with a keyboard, but I didn’t like it. It was very lightweight and had no rubber feet on it, so it slid around on the desk. But worst was that it is the “Fat Enter Key” design. I’ve been using the standard keyboard since the 80s, so no.
†† I was able to find a cheap replacement motherboard for the HP, and subsequently brought it back to life. I tried to find one for the Lenovo, but those are nearly impossible to get, being an older model. I might yet find some other MB that can substitute, if I get motivated.