Are the days of "Scroll Lock" numbered?

[WithoutMotive]

I don't think I've EVER used Scroll Lock.
I've heard it's still used in Excel sometimes but otherwise, is there much use for it anymore?

EDIT: Just had a look here and found very few uses for it.

[Elky]

How random! 'I've never used scroll lock before but I'm going to create a post asking if its days are numbered'

For what it's worth, I've never used it either!

[WithoutMotive]

Originally Posted by Elky

How random!

LOL... I was thinking how random it was myself.

I accidentally hit it instead of Print Screen and thought, "I've never used that key for ANY purpose. What a waste of key and LED.......... I should post this on various online forums"

[SYSMAN_MK]

Use it all the time when swapping between machines on my KVM switch.

[witch]

Or there is the SysRq key - never used that either
I like this: System request - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Especially where it says:
"System request (often abbreviated SysRq or Sys Req) is a key on keyboards for PCs that has no standard use"

??

[Michael]

Speaking of useless keys, what's the key above tab and below escape on the left hand side for?

[Samson]

Originally Posted by Michael

Speaking of useless keys, what's the key above tab and below escape on the left hand side for?

Thought that was used as a Pipe symbol - has a lot of use on *nix systems etc -- but then i realised thats down the bottom left...

Don't know what the little sideways L or backward apostrophe's for though: ¬`

[SYSMAN_MK]

Originally Posted by Michael

Speaking of useless keys, what's the key above tab and below escape on the left hand side for?

For ` ¬ ¦

[witch]

Maths and Physics notation, apparently

[powdarrmonkey]

It's called backtick, commonly used as a field specifier in sql and escape sequence in many shell systems.

Sql example:

SELECT `id`, `name` FROM user WHERE `name`='Fred';

Bash example:

for a in `ln *.txt`; do cat $a; done

[SteveBentley]

The ` is used as an additional type of quote mark in MySQL - generally used when referring to table names IIRC.

[Michael]

You learn something new everyday

[Midget]

it's also used for accessing the console in most made for PC games (like half life)

[K.C.Leblanc]

I use the Scroll Luck button on a repairs bench setup. It's the quickest way round the KVM.

[JohnMason]

Pause|Break is just as useless these days, isn't it?

Then again, a keyboard without those three at the top would just look wrong.