[Info-vax] Compaq or Fujitsu PC with WPS style keyboard

[brian]

urbancamo wrote:
> I worked as a contractor at the British Gas Research and Development
> Centre in Loughborough UK between 1996 and 1999. Before it was retired
> in favo(u)r of Lotus Notes (yuk) ALLIN1 was being used as the
> enterprise-wide office tool. The PC's we used were compact desktops,
> and had keyboards with the WPS plus key legends.
>
> Can anyone enlighten me as to what model these desktops would have
> been? I always thought they were Fujitsu built, but it would make more
> sense if they had come from Compaq.
>
> Kind regards, Mark.


The WPS keyboards originated on a PDP8 based workstation called the 
DECMATE from Digital Equipment Corporation DEC.  The All-IN-ONE 
application used a similar keyboard and could be found on VMS based VT 
type Terminals and later PS2 Variants of the Keyboard were made for PC's 
from DEC and later Compaq when the two companies merged in 1998.
The DEC pc's had model names like Venturis and Centuris, and of course 
Compaq has the DeskPro PCs for business users.

Brian