Decmate keyboards are like that. The keyboards are Wordprocessing oriented -
and the "gold" key was very important ;-)
They work the same as standard DEC LKxxx keyboards.
Lyle
On Tuesday 04 May 2004 07:20, 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?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jay West
>
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