Meanwhile, for the modern Microsoft implementation: Booting up a fresh Windows 10 laptop. It wants me to select my country from the dropdown. I type in the first letter of my country. Nothing happens.
Hooray!
Was it some sort of slow scrolling without arrow keys as well? I vaguely remember a horrible process of finding my country, but I'm not sure if it was Windows Setup.
Haha, what you said reminded me of some software where you'd hit down on the bottom most entry and the next one would, agonizingly slowly, scroll up into view but if you just grabbed the scroll bar and moved it with the mouse you'd get where you wanted faster. If you tried grabbing the scrollbar after you'd hit 'down' on the bottommost entry, your inputs would be unrecognized.
I'm positive it was MS software, but I can't recall now. I only see the memory.
Visa's exchange rate calculator was similarly annoying – a long list of countries/currencies, but they reimplemented the dropdown control in such a way that typing to jump to the entry I want didn't work. Though at least that one has been fixed recently…
