[Info-vax] How to Avoid Old Software, Old Bugs?

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2019-11-15 kl. 22:04, skrev Scott Dorsey:
> Mark Berryman  <mark at theberrymans.com> wrote:
>> On 11/14/19 2:45 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
>>> .
>>> Support for any KB is not, as much as I can tell, any part of an OS.
>>> Yes, some utilities support the LK keyboard.  For what it's worth, I
>>> much prefer the LK KB.  Now, tell me where to get any new ones.
>>
>> Pick yourself up a full-size Apple aluminum keyboard.  It is almost an
>> exact match for the LK keyboard (and is as close as you will likely come
>> today).  It certainly has all of the keys you will need.  For me, the
>> big benefit is that the keypad layout is an exact match plus having all
>> of the standard math symbols on the keypad when not in keypad
>> application mode.
> 
> It does not have the PF1 through PF4 keys, which are the primary thing that
> most people complain about when using DEC applications with a non-DEC keyboard.
> 
> More importantly from my perspective the Apple key feel is just horrible.
> And the keys are flat and don't center your fingers on them.  I would much
> more recommend one of the Cherry gaming keyboards, which are much faster to
> touch-type on and feel more like the standard keyboards of the days before
> rubber membranes took over the industry.
> --scott
> 

I don't get it...

I started with EDT on RSX-11M on VT52. Then moved over to VT100 up
to VT520 while moving to VMS. The last 20 years I have used whatever
keyboard by work computer/laptop happend to have. Still using EDT
with no issues.

All my laptops having a separate numeric keypad (I don't buy anything
else) have work just well with EDT. Or any cheap BT keyboard/mouse
connected to my laptop.

I don't even remember if some keys was in some different position
on the VTxxx or "LK" keyboards and I just couldn't care less...

And, b.t.w., I still make a good living from VMS work and intend to
do so until my retirement.