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echo: fidonews
to: BJRN FELTEN
from: TOMMI KOIVULA
date: 2017-01-15 14:43:00
subject: Scroll Lock

Hello, Bj�rn Felten.
On 15/01/2017 12:36 you wrote:

 BF> One thing that I love about Fidonet, and keeps me hanging on to this
hobby, is that nowadays we seem to have concentrated a huge amount of knowledge
from yesteryears -- with a lot of old DOS/BBS-farts still doing this?
 BF>    So, can any of you come up with a reason why we still have that Scroll
Lock key and indicator on our keyboards?
 BF>    I seem to recall that it had some function in Excel, but other than
that?
 BF> ..

It will of course tell the bbs software if the sysop is available or not.

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