Timeline for Why did Acorn's A3000 have red function keys?
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| Sep 19, 2021 at 19:40 | comment | added | Peter Green | The electron also lackes red function keys. Curiously the later A3020 had them despite not being BBC barnded. | |
| Jul 22, 2019 at 18:56 | vote | accept | Kaz | ||
| Apr 11, 2019 at 20:29 | comment | added | Maury Markowitz | I am curious: why did they have BBC branding? Were these used as part of the BBC programming (as in teaching, not computer)? | |
| Apr 11, 2019 at 8:19 | comment | added | gidds | Is there a reference for the red function keys being specific to the BBC? (I'm not doubting it; the pre-BBC Acorn Atom doesn't have them, which supports the idea — but it's still circumstantial.) | |
| Apr 10, 2019 at 18:19 | comment | added | JAB | @alephzero trademark, not copyright. Other people can still use that specific shade of brown as long as they aren't engaged in courier services. | |
| Apr 10, 2019 at 17:18 | comment | added | JdeBP | 105-key keyboards are still available in this style. | |
| Apr 10, 2019 at 15:27 | comment | added | alephzero | I don't know the specifics of this case, but designers can get very protective about color schemes. The international courier company UPS owns the copyright on "the color brown", for example. My own multinational employer has a 20-page document defining exactly what color to paint anything that might have the company logo on it! | |
| Apr 10, 2019 at 13:52 | comment | added | Kaz | @Tommy, I'm afraid I don't know. I've asked a question about the BBC's involvement in the Archimedes line at retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/9644 | |
| Apr 10, 2019 at 13:26 | comment | added | Tommy | Petty quibble, apologies. Re: "weren't allowed to have", do you think that's in the sense of the actual legal agreement with the BBC and not appearing to try to co-opt the brand for unauthorised machines, or merely in the sense of Acorn management giving instructions to Acorn designers that it's time for the company to move away from that association? | |
| Apr 10, 2019 at 11:50 | history | answered | Kaz | CC BY-SA 4.0 |