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  Straight Dope Staff Report: What's the "Scroll Lock" key on my computer for?
The Scroll Lock key has appeared on the keyboards of IBM personal computers since the original 83-key PC/XT and the 84-key AT layouts, and remains on the 101-key and greater "enhanced" keyboards currently in use.
IBM evidently included this key to facilitate task switching in future operating systems — that is, to allow either switching from one task to another (as on a mainframe computer), or interrupting all tasks and returning control to the keyboard.
The Pause/Break key was used in the DOS command line environment to pause scrolling of text on the screen, which could, depending on the program and its method of text output to the screen, have the effect of pausing program execution.
www.straightdope.com /mailbag/mscrolllock.html   (1449 words)

  
  ipedia.com: Scroll Lock Article   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Scroll Lock is a key (with an associated status light) on a computer keyboard.
When the scroll lock mode was on, the arrow keys would scroll the contents of a text window.
In this sense, Scroll Lock serves a similar purpose to Num Lock and Caps Lock: it enables a secondary function of a group of keys.
www.ipedia.com /scroll_lock.html   (306 words)

  
 Confusion Road - Satire That Fits Your Lifestyle
But there is another key whose functionality is so often overlooked, yet so powerful, that I simply must tell you.
People are always hitting it when they're going for the Control or Alt keys; they don't really know its function; and it's contributing to the relentless, shameful shrinkage of the all-important Space Bar (a development that Space Bar, I assure you, is none too pleased about).
We've been neighbors for many years now, and he's been through a lot of the same problems as me. Oh, he's still used now and then, like to pause computer games and stuff like that — at least he's got the advantage that his name kind of means something to people.
www.confusionroad.com /article.php?page_function=display_article&nav=archive&subnav=20&article_id=129   (824 words)

  
 Scroll lock key
A key found on a computer keyboard often located close to the keyboard pause key.
If scroll lock is enabled on the keyboard when you press any of the arrow keys the screen will move in that direction but the selected cell will not change.
However, if scroll lock is not enabled you will be able to navigate through each of the cells using the arrow keys.
www.computerhope.com /jargon/s/scrolock.htm   (162 words)

  
 RJL Software - Software - Entertainment - Crazy Num Caps Scroll
It is possible to setup which keys to toggle and how often to toggle each key.
It can also be added to the Windows startup, where it would automatically begin toggling the keys.
The best part about this program is that it is totally hidden to the user, and they will be unable to determine the source of the toggle.
www.rjlsoftware.com /software/entertainment/crazy_ncs   (325 words)

  
 scroll - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about scroll
In music, the decorative, curved part of an instrument of the violin family, situated at the end of the fingerboard, away from the body of the instrument.
And when he saw one of our number present himself somewhat before the rest, he drew forth a little scroll of parchment
Its panelled front was in the likeness of a ship's bluff bows, and the Holy Bible rested on the projecting piece of scroll work, fashioned after a ship's fiddle-headed beak.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /scroll   (162 words)

  
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 PA EARLY LEARNING KEYS TO QUALITY
The Pennsylvania Early Learning Keys to Quality, sponsored by the Department of Public Welfare's Office of Child Development and Early Learning, is a quality improvement program in which all early learning programs and practitioners are encouraged and supported to improve child outcomes.
All Pennsylvania families will have access to high quality care and education for their children, fostering successful futures in school and in life.
Eligible for the PA Keys to Professional Development Voucher Program (some exclusions apply)
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 The Health Establishment and the Order of Skull & Bones   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In 1927, John D. Rockefeller's grandson, John Rockefeller Prentice, was tapped for Skull and Bones, 1928, and his cousin, John Sterling Rockefeller, the grandson of William Rockefeller and son of William Rockefeller, Yale 1892, was tapped for Scroll and Key.
James Cox Brady, Scroll and Keys 1904, was a trustee of the Central Trust.
Boardman was a correspondent of fellow Cleveland native Harvey Williams Cushing, Scroll and Key 1891, in 1891 and from 1913 to 1925, while ARC Chairman William Howard Taft deferred to her.
www.smokershistory.com /theorder.htm   (12072 words)

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