@ ianlee74 - No, my college purchased a keypad because his keyboard doesn’t have one (like laptops). It was only after he plugged it in that we relized that we didn’t have ALT + code capability. We use special chars often. Also, it seems that we can’t use the numbers on the top row of the keyboard either, it has to be from a num pad. So we were wondering if this was because of the USB HID keyboard spec or a limitation of the OS.
Also, since I’m back to playing EVE online (an MMORPG) I really need macro keys, so I wanted to be able to attach more and more keypads to the computer (via a NETMF device of course) to have better control of my toon.