DEC VT102 question

Jay> I have a DEC VT102 terminal that I got some time ago from a Jay> listmember. On the right of the keyboard where the numeric Jay> keypad is, the keys don't match the color of the other keys on Jay> the keyboard. The upper left key in the keypad is gold, and the Jay> other keys on the keypad are different colors - red, blue, white Jay> - and have editing words on them, I think words like "left, Jay> copy, print", something like that. Jay> My question is - is it likely that someone scavenged keys from Jay> another non-vt100 keyboard to replace missing keys, or was this Jay> some option used with some word processing software? If the Jay> later, I'm happy I have something unusual. If the former, I am Jay> going to yank those keycaps off and scavenge the "correct" keys Jay> from one of the other VT100's I'm going to junk. Those are DECword (a.k.a., WPS) keycaps. The gold key is the dead giveaway -- WPS used that as a command prefix, similar to the way TECO and Emacs use ESC. You'd be more likely to find those keycaps on an LK201 style keyboard, to go with a DECmate. Or they would appear on a box that looks like a VT52 -- an older WPS box. But the VT100 series keyboard makes sense; if nothing else, that could go with the WPS-Plus application that was part of one of KO's stranger brainstorms. That was a port of the WPS system to VMS, and then backported to a PDP11 (RSX or RSTS) for terribly bad performance, written in a brand new programming language (KOALA) never seen before or since. So you have something legit and somewhat unusual. paul