On Apr 7 2005, 13:31, Ashley Carder wrote: I now have genuine DEC buttons, but before I got the "2" and "3" I worked out how the numbers are encoded on the fingers, and made my own out of Perspex. Each button was made in five parts: four sides, and a front piece. I cut the pieces from sheet, glued them together with perspex cement, filed the fingers to the correct length, and cemented a piece of acetate sheet to the front for the number. The digit was laserprinted in reverse onto the acetate, so once cemented, it was protected by the acetate itself. Took an evening to make four of them. Kludge alert: Before I made the perspex buttons, I used matchsticks inserted into the finger slots, but I had to re-adjust them periodically because the vibration made them shift. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York