Thanks Roger. I knew someone would remember the 5 PFK keyboards.
Eric Bielefeld
Sr. Systems Programmer
IBM Global Services Division
Dubuque, Iowa
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Bowler" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, December 16, 2011 8:34 AM
Subject: Re: Is there an SPF setting to turn CAPS ON like keyboard key?
This would have been the IBM 3277 Data Entry keyboard. Page 25 of
GA27-2749-5_3270descr_Nov75.pdf at bitsavers shows two forms of the Data
Entry keyboard both having PF1-PF5 keys neatly hidden amongst the other
keys in the top right area of the keyboard. The 78-key typewriter keyboard
and the operator console keyboard were the ones with the more familiar
block of 12 PF keys to the right. When you look at the pictures on page 25
you can see the reason why SPF assigns PF7/8 to ScrollUp/Down and PF10/11
to ScrollLeft/Right -- the PF7/PF8, PF10/PF11 keys are in a block adjacent
to the Up/Down, Left/Right arrow keys so it's easy to remember. Of course
this logic went out of the window when they switched to 3278 terminals
with the PF keys along the top, after which the SPF assignments just look
arbitrary.
Roger Bowler
Hercules "the people's mainframe"
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