Because of the design of the original IBM PC keyboard with only 84 keys.
No longer really relevant. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numlock>
Chuck Norcutt
On 11/30/2013 12:57 AM, Chris Barker wrote:
> Thanks, Mike.
>
> Over all these years of using MS-DOS and Winders, I have yet to work out why
> there is a Num Lock.
>
> Chris
>
> On 29 Nov 13, at 16:32, Mike Lazzari <watershed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>> There appears to be no Alt code in Winders ...
>> alt230 important: with num-loc _ON_
>>
>> but you probably know this by now since I'm a Digester.
>> --
>
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