[Info-vax] OT: Keypad picture wanted

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <6d52a771-1378-4917-a401-53988e04abcfn at googlegroups.com>,
seasoned_geek <roland at logikalsolutions.com> writes: 

> At the time DOS was being introduced, one of the biggest CP/M applications 
> was Visicalc, a spreadsheet application. Many of the people buying Commodore
>  and other "personal computers" of the day were accountants/book keepers 
> using Word Star and VisiCalc. The spreadsheet users/accountants wanted an 
> adding machine type keypad. DEC created a data entry form numeric keypad 
> because that was how order entry, inventory, etc. applications used it. Two 
> completely different markets.

A question for Jan-Erik: In Sweden, the wind speed in the weather
forecast was (still is?) given in m/s.  Most places are probably km/h or 
m.p.h. or numbers on the Beaufort scale.  Another way to remember where 
I was: telephones had a keypad like on a computer, with 1, 2, 3 at the 
bottom, rather than at the top.  Presumably mobile phones have 1, 2, 3 
at the top like in most (all?) other places.  Are the old land-line 
telephones with the inverted keypads still around?

I'll have to check, but I think that ATMs switched from the 
computer-style to the mobile-phone--style keyboard in Germany at some 
point.