[Info-vax] OT: Keypad picture wanted

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In article <rhjn27$hhq$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>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.

What system does that?

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