[Info-vax] LK keyboard driver

[Ken Fairfield]

On Feb 18, 10:03 am, B Hobbs <bdhobb... at acm.org> wrote:
> Anyone know of more current Windows drivers for LK keyboards?
>
> A co-worker found this strange keyboard in the back of the warehouse
> where the rats don't like to go.  He was going to put it on the scrap
> heap, I distracted him with some 8 inch floppies ("How do you use
> these?  Fold 'em?"), grabbed the keyboard, and scurried off.  A
> pristine LK461-A2 with the cord still in plastic wrap.  Alas, no
> documentation or disk.

What version of Windows???

I'm typing this on a (beige) LK461-A2 under Windowa XP SP2
with no additional drivers loaded.

You need minimal "tribal knowledge" to find the mapping:

Find      = Home
Select   = End
Remove = Del

Prev,Next and Insert Here map as expected.

PF1 = NumLock (hated, hated Windows key!)
F18 = PrtScr
F19 = SrcLock

That gets me around Windows apps just fine.

Under Reflections X (V10.0), in a Decterm, the
keyboard is fully functional in VMS.  My one gripe
is that PF1 continues to toggle NumLock, which
screws up the keypad mapping in the editor (I just
try to avoid using it at all).

In a Reflections VT terminal, the Help and Do
keys are dead (I don't use it regularly, so I suspect
that all of F13-F20 are dead, but test for
yourself).  This is true even with a "real" LK450-AA
plugged in and an LK450 driver from Reflections
loaded.

But this is a very old version of Reflections.  I've
no experience with their current release.

Upshot is, at least on WXP, I don't think you
need, or want, a keyboard driver.

    -Ken