[Info-vax] OT: Keypad picture wanted

seasoned_geek roland at logikalsolutions.com
Tue Aug 18 18:03:31 EDT 2020


On Tuesday, August 18, 2020 at 2:37:31 PM UTC-5, seasoned_geek wrote:
> All,
> 
> Someone has got to have a better free-to-use picture of a DEC keyboard numeric keypad than this.
> 
> https://www.logikalsolutions.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/vt-keyboard.png
> 
> I tried to crop down the keyboard image I had in my original DEC application developer book but it wasn't close enough for the keypad portion to yield a clear image. I don't have another VT keyboard laying around here or I would just take the picture myself. Would like to add a clear one in the help text.
> 
> Oh, in kicking the tires on CopperSpice (a Qt fork) I opted to add themes and EDT keypad support. It's not in the main repo because I'm not close enough to done for a pull request. I do periodically check stuff into my fork of it though.
> 
> https://github.com/RolandHughes/diamond
> 
> After using Emacs for a book and a half and the "almost" EDT keypad emulation (can't map NumLock to gold unless you hack the terminal definition) I decided to take the plunge on Diamond. I wanted to really try CopperSpice coding and this was a big thing someone did as an experiment for it.
> 
> Anyway, since script kiddies can't imagine anything that isn't a PC or Apple keyboard, I was looking for a good free-to-use keypad only close-up.
> 
> Feel free to send it off-line.

Thanks to all who emailed!



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