You could say why don't we simply use the original Apple keyboards. However, if you are using STAR's Transit NXT, it is a pain. For most programs, the lack of a keypad may be annoying but it is not particularly troublesome. It isn't the keypad itself, since I have tried 2 different ones and ones from 2 different manufacturers (Belkin and ? can't remember). In both cases, the mac recognizes the keypad but the VM does not recognize the number lock. In this case, the numeric keypad is a separate USB keypad that connects to the mac on a separate USB port. ![]() We then upgraded to new keyboards which connect to the mac directly via a USB port (no adapter any more) and work fine with every mac program that we've tried (and that's a lot). ![]() These had keypads that connected to the mac through the main keyboard so you were only using a single USB port for the combination of the main ergonomic split keyboard + a separate keypad. ![]() Our first ones were old PC keyboards connected via an adapter to a USB port on the mac. The problem is that we use special ergonomic split keyboards from Fujitsu/Siemens (helps prevent RSI when you work on the machine 8-14 hours/day 7 days a week). If I connect an old Apple keyboard with a numeric keypad, the number lock works.
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