Real Vi / Vim equipment

Pay attention, dear Vi / Vim fans, for which periphery your favorite editor was originally made. This is not an xy-mukhra, but an ADM-3A terminal, by the way, with a data transfer rate of 75 baud, and costing about one kilobax.



But what is its keyboard, from which it will immediately be clear why real peppers use only h, j, k, l to move to Vi, and not pop pointers - because there are no arrows. The letter is one parcel (byte), and the arrows, which appeared much later, are three.
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It will also be immediately clear why the [Esc] button was so convenient to use, along with [Ctrl], unlike Aybiembovskikh keyboards, in which this most trump and comfortable place on the keyboard is occupied by the completely meaningless button CapsLock.

Useful link: Wikipedia