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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: wheel83 on Thu, 05 March 2009, 10:12:31

Title: Quick Ultra Noob Question
Post by: wheel83 on Thu, 05 March 2009, 10:12:31

On an IBM Space Saver, How do you turn off the number keys (uiop,jkl,m,etc,) ?  i tried pressing num lock obviously.  i feel like zoolander and hansel as monkies.. ahhh


thanks

Title: Quick Ultra Noob Question
Post by: wheel83 on Thu, 05 March 2009, 10:14:40

my monkey brain figured it out.  shift + num lock.  clickykeyboards.com google wtf

Title: Quick Ultra Noob Question
Post by: bhtooefr on Thu, 05 March 2009, 10:40:00

It actually makes sense if you're used to how ThinkPads work, but completely unintuitive to anyone else.

(ThinkPads are worse, because they label NmLk in blue, which makes you think... "oh, Fn-ScrLk will work!" Which isn't just unintuitive, it's counterintuitive.)