Talk:Bucky bit

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Not sure how to format this comment, but shouldn't Microsoft's Window key be included as a bucky-bit key now? Also, I'm wondering about the case of keyboards that have right and left  or  keys. Shouldn't they be regarded as separate bucky bits? Shanen (talk) 06:15, 23 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Nope, the windows key is ctrl+escape. Exactly.
 * you can press ctrl+escape+r and that's exactly the same as windows+r
 * 2601:201:897F:E8A0:787C:5ED3:1C33:ABB1 (talk) 2601:201:897F:E8A0:787C:5ED3:1C33:ABB1 (talk) 01:27, 11 November 2023 (UTC)

History
I was at Stanford when the term Bucky Bit was invented. It originally referred to the two extra modifier keys on the Philco display terminals on the PDP-1, referred to individually as &ldquo;left Bucky&rdquo; and &ldquo;right Bucky&rdquo;. The two modifier keys controled the high two bits transmitted from the keyboard to the CPU. Professor Wirth's nickname was "Bucky Beaver". Unfortunately, I do not have authoratitive refreences for these statements&mdash;they are based only on my memory. John Sauter (talk) 15:18, 28 November 2013 (UTC)