>(Aside; if anybody has ever used the EDT editor on a VAX or Alpha, the 
>numeric keypad is used for movement and such. It's a royal pain. "2" goes 
>to end of line, "0" goes to start of next line, "-" deletes a word, "*" 
>deletes a line... meanwhile, there's 15 perfectly-good function keys 
>sitting across the top of the keyboard doing nothing - except F10, which 
>is exit... and nobody can remember _what_ the keys do unless they use 
>them every day. Worse, "Home" does a "find", "End" does a "select"...)

If you used a VAX system through telnet, you were most likely using a 
"standard" keyboard. I believe there are keyboards designed specifically 
for the VAX. The machine itself (in some dark closet with a 10base-T 
link) probably has a special keyboard. I haven't worked with them too 
much, but I started programming with software written for VMS (Virtual 
Management System, I beleive) on an Alpha server.

Sean