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The group of number keys? I just got a new computer at work & now my enter key all the way to the right doesn't work, but I don't even know what to call it to look for help. The Num Lock is on & the number keys work fine, just the enter doesn't work!!

2006-08-15 07:20:28 · 5 answers · asked by Lotus 2 in Computers & Internet Hardware Other - Hardware

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That area is call the "10 key" or "keypad".

It is designed to emulate an old fashion calculator or adding machine. Many of the first users of PCs where accountants and data entry personnel who needed to quickly enter lots of numbers. The traditional keyboard with numbers across the top was completely useless for this task.

If you go back to high schools before the 90s, many offered separate courses for typing and for 10 keys or key entry.

2006-08-15 07:28:40 · answer #1 · answered by soulrider 3 · 0 0

This is going back to the unique handbook typewriters. The keys have been initially arranged in step with maximum situation-free letter utilization, yet human beings typed so quickly the mechanical character palms could get caught mutually. So the keys have been located in positions to unquestionably sluggish human beings down. The Dvorak keyboard got here out in in all probability the 80s and is predicated on the main situation-free letter utilization concept returned now that human beings do digital notice processing fairly than "typing".

2016-09-29 07:27:26 · answer #2 · answered by laseter 4 · 0 0

its called the "10 key" its the number pad that looks like the numbers on the phone almost.. .yes, its the 10-key. i asked that same question and got that answer

2006-08-15 07:27:25 · answer #3 · answered by ericamarie3 2 · 0 0

the number keypad, maybe.

2006-08-15 07:26:07 · answer #4 · answered by AzOasis8 6 · 0 0

keypad.

2006-08-15 07:25:34 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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