Editing VT220 (section)

==Legacy==
In 1983-1984, during the design phase of the IBM [[Model M]] keyboard, the VT220 was a new and very popular product. IBM's design team chose<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.howtogeek.com/661430/why-i-still-use-a-34-year-old-ibm-model-m-keyboard/|title=Why I Still Use a 34-Year-Old IBM Model M Keyboard|date=25 April 2020 |access-date=2021-04-19}}</ref> to emulate its LK201 keyboard layout. Key innovations that IBM copied were the inverted-T shape of the arrow cluster, the navigation keys above it, and the numeric keypad off to its right.  Eventually the popularity of the IBM PC would lead to the Model M layout becoming standardized by ANSI and ISO. Through those standards, minor variations of the VT220's keyboard layout have dominated keyboard design ever since.