Using the Terminal’s KeyboardChapter —3
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5250 Terminal Emulation Programmer’s Guide
17XX Terminal
For help with using the keyboard, refer to the RT17XX Radio Data Termi-
nal User’s Guide (P/N 961-047-068).
Black
Gold
Brown
Unlabeled Key Colors:
57 -Key Keyboard
37 -Key Keyboard
Your 17XX Terminal has either a 57-key (left) or a 37-key (right) keyboard as shown.
Characters on the Keyboards
The special characters and functions printed on the ov erlay are color-coded
to correspond with the matching shift keys. The shift keys are as follows:
[Shift] Press [Shift] plus a letter to type the letter in u ppercase. Th e [Shift] key is
located near the top of the keyboard.
[Gold] Thegoldkeyputsthekeyboardintogoldshiftmode.Press[Gold] plus a
keyboard key to type a characte r or do an operation printed i n gold on th e
overlay.
[Black] The black key puts the keyboard into black shift mode. Press [Black] plus a
keyboard key to do an operation printed in black on the overlay.
The [Field Exit] key has its operation printed to the left of it. The
operation to the left is its unshifted value. The operations printed above
[Field Exit] are shifted values.