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

[urbancamo]

On Jan 21, 4:34 pm, ChrisQ <m... at devnull.com> wrote:
> On 01/20/12 06:07, 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.
>
> Not sure if this is relevant, but the vaxmate 286 pc used the LK250
> keyboard,
> which could be used on a standard pc by changing the cable to the dec
> one with a
> standard din plug, instead of the vaxmate type. I bought an LK250 and
> the cable
> new, so I could used the sedt keypad editor under dos / windows.
>
> If its just the keypad layout you need, dec dealers may still have them
> in stock...
>
> Regards,
>
> Chris

Hi Chris,

Thanks for the info. In fact I have an LK250. You can use it with MS-
DOS Kermit and a special driver file to enable the full keyboard mode.
I had to dig it out to remind me whether it had the word processing
keycaps or not. It does ;)

Regards, Mark.