[Info-vax] OT: Keypad picture wanted

[Simon Clubley]

On 2020-08-19, Chris Townley <cctownley at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, August 19, 2020 at 2:22:59 PM UTC+1, VAXman- wrote:
>> In article <f752a65d-88e3-4339-9d6f-9ac90378b564o at googlegroups.com>, seasoned_geek writes:
>> >All,
>> >
>> >Someone has got to have a better free-to-use picture of a DEC keyboard nume=
>> >ric keypad than this.
>> >
>> >https://www.logikalsolutions.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/vt-ke=
>> >yboard.png
>> 
>> I can take such a photograph for you. ;)
>> 
>
> Ah - a Proper keyboard!
>

The IBM mainframe people might call _their_ traditional 3270 keyboards
the proper keyboards. :-)

That actually raises a question: what do the IBM mainframe people do
when they are forced to access their mainframes from a normal PC ?

Do they use the USB or PS/2 version of the traditional 3270-style keyboard ?

I've just done a quick search and it turns out such a thing actually
exists. :-) Here comes Phillip asking for the same thing for the VT
keyboard layout... :-)

> Why did MS & IBM goe for that mad Num-lock idea, and change the keypas layout?
>

Change the keypad from what ? DEC's keyboards were not the
only keyboards at the time when the PC keyboard was designed.

BTW, it's not mad when you are inputting numbers all day and the
operating system you are using doesn't have the concept of
an application keypad mode to switch between numeric and
non-numeric mode.

Simon.

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