[Info-vax] Should VSI commission the production of DEC layout keyboards ?

[Dave Froble]

On 7/21/2022 1:56 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2022-07-21, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
>> In article <tbbg81$2bnsg$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley
>> <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>>
>>> While reading the list of what people are likely to ask for next in VMS,
>>> I realised that some people missed the real DEC keyboards.
>>>
>>> So, should VSI commission the production of a DEC layout keyboard with,
>>> say, a USB interface ?
>>
>> Any interface which will work with VMS running on bare metal x86.
>>
>
> Then that's a USB interface.
>
>>> How many of you would be interested in that and how much would you pay ?
>>
>> I would pay any reasonable price.  :-)
>>
>
> Your idea of reasonable and a manufacturer's idea of reasonable may not
> be the same thing. :-)
>
>>> For me, I've no interest in moving from a full PC keyboard as that _is_
>>> my "DEC" keyboard, and has been for a long time, but I thought I would
>>> ask the question anyway.
>>
>> To me, "full" and "PC keyboard" in an oxymoron, since a PC keyboard is
>> missing some keys.
>>
>
> The only thing missing for me is delete word and I never used that.
>
> I also find a good-quality PC keyboard to be more ergonomic than how
> I remember the old DEC keyboards. Hopefully, if anyone did do a DEC
> layout keyboard they would use modern ergonomic standards. :-)
>
> Simon.
>

The VT420 and VT500 keyboards were pretty good "modern ergonomic standards". 
Earlier ones, not so much.

While I don't get out much, and haven't seen everything, nothing I've seen since 
matches the VT420 and VT500 keyboards.  YMMV.

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