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- From: dlc@ddsdx2.jhuapl.edu (Dave Collard x7468)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Keybd with ',' on keypad wanted by unconvertible VMS weenie
- Summary: I want a keyboard like a DEC keyboard!
- Keywords: keyboard, VMS, pc
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.182924.19781@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 18:29:24 GMT
- Sender: news@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (USENET News System)
- Distribution: usa
- Organization: Johns Hopkins University
- Lines: 36
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- Please help a poor inflexible VMS weenie with unforgiving fingers
- that don't want to learn a lesser I mean different editor than
- TPU with EDT keyboard. The keypad is the problem.
- I cannot find a keyboard for a PC that looks like a DEC
- keyboard in that the keypad looks like:
-
- |-----|-----|-----|-----|
- | | | | |
- | | | | |
- | | | | |
- |-----|-----|-----|-----|
- | | | | |
- | 7 | 8 | 9 | _ | >---\
- | | | | | \
- |-----|-----|-----|-----| > These two keys are
- | | | | | / combined on *every*
- | 4 | 5 | 6 | , | >---/ keyboard I can find!!!
- | | | | |
- |-----|-----|-----|-----|
- | | | | |
- | 1 | 2 | 3 | E |
- | | | | n |
- |-----|-----|-----| t |
- | | | e |
- | 0 | . | r |
- | | | |
- |-----|-----|-----|-----|
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- I don't think even DEC's PC keyboard has this key :(
- Why so many function keys, but not this one little key!
- sigh. Please help.
-
- email to:
- dlc@ddsdx2.jhuapl.edu
- --or--
- collard@capsrv.jhuapl.edu
-