Registered: Jan 2001
Location: Misplaced Canuck in Charleston SC
Posts: 257

numeric keypad?

When I'm testing equipment, I have to enter a bunch of numbers.

Before, I used to do it with a laptop.

Then I was using my Platinum and grafitti-ing it all into Quicksheet. Slow, but now i'm a lot more portable.

Now, I have a stowaway to help me. Entering data is much faster, but as everyone knows, doing numbers on a keyboard can be a little bit cumbersome.

So now I'm thinking that a little numeric keypad that my Visor would snap into like the Stowaway would be cool.

Of course, once I finish writing the app that lets me talk to my meters over the serial port, this becomes mostly a moot point, but I still think a keypad might be handy.

so what does everyone else think?

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Registered: Feb 2002
Location: Washburn University in Topeka, KS
Posts: 450

On the new PPC Stowaways, they have a built in number pad just like a laptop does - it uses the uio-jkl-m,. keys I believe (though I might be wrong) and it's accessable with the FN key. It'd be great if TO/Targus put this onto the Visor Stowaway

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada
Posts: 415

you could get a numeric overlay for the graph area with a mini-keypad printed on it.. i think there are some free drivers out thre for that.

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