You had to use several function keys to get the computer to do the most basic tasks.

In the "old days" (like maybe three years ago) those function keys did everything.

Good use is made of the function keys and the screens are well laid out.

"If you hit the right function key, the attributes in the shaft would show those areas of the document."

A diagram, showing the various function keys is shown in figure 2.4.

Magic can be accessed and used by pressing the right function key.

I'm still going over here for the function keys.

Or maybe just a convenient function key that isn't supposed to be programmed at all?

Green needs to hold down which key before pressing the given function key?

Most Personal computers copied this, and have a set of 12 function keys.