DEC VT102 terminal question?

From: Huw Davies <huw.davies_at_kerberos.davies.net.au>
Date: Wed Jun 2 08:53:33 2004

On 4 May 2004, at 23:15, Jay West wrote:

> I have a DEC VT102 terminal that I got some time ago from a
> listmember. On
> the right of the keyboard where the numeric keypad is, the keys don't
> match
> the color of the other keys on the keyboard. The upper left key in the
> keypad is gold, and the other keys on the keypad are different colors
> - red,
> blue, white - and have editing words on them, I think words like "left,
> copy, print", something like that.
>
> My question is - is it likely that someone scavenged keys from another
> non-vt100 keyboard to replace missing keys, or was this some option
> used
> with some word processing software? If the later, I'm happy I have
> something
> unusual. If the former, I am going to yank those keycaps off and
> scavenge
> the "correct" keys from one of the other VT100's I'm going to junk.
>
> Anyone know the answer?

Sounds like a WPS or WPS+ keypad. It's been a long while since I've
seen one but it sounds right!

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