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A portable data collection terminal has an elongate housing with a hand grip conforming rear surface. A front surface features a numerical keyboard adjacent a lower end of the housing and an LCD screen adjacent the keyboard toward an upper end of the housing. The display screen is of elongate rectan

A portable data collection terminal has an elongate housing with a hand grip conforming rear surface. A front surface features a numerical keyboard adjacent a lower end of the housing and an LCD screen adjacent the keyboard toward an upper end of the housing. The display screen is of elongate rectangular shape, its length extending longitudinally of the housing of the data terminal. The active area of the display screen is covered by a touch sensitive overlay screen which is configured in one mode of operation of the data terminal into an alphabetical keyboard. The orientation of the display is switchable between orientations in which the line direction of the displayed data extends across or longitudinally of the data terminal. The keys of the numerical keyboard are identified by indicia disposed on a template. The orientation of the template may be sensed to switch the orientation of the displayed data and touch sensitive key identifiers to correspond to the orientation of the indicia on the template. As a further embodiment an electromagnetic activation by a pen may be used to enter data into a data terminal. Power saving shutdown extends the battery life of the data terminal. A shutdown mode permits resumption of operations by depression of a key.

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[ What is claimed is:] [1.] A portable data collection terminal comprising:a housing having a frontal side including a display screen and a keyboard wherein the display screen includes a screen area and a graphic data input mechanism disposed coincident with the screen area; anda power management ci

[ What is claimed is:] [1.] A portable data collection terminal comprising:a housing having a frontal side including a display screen and a keyboard wherein the display screen includes a screen area and a graphic data input mechanism disposed coincident with the screen area; anda power management circuit mechanism including a non-volatile memory and a shadowing circuit configured to operably provide(a) shadowing of input and output device states of the terminal, and(b) storing microprocessor register states, including input and output device states, to the non-volatile memory as the terminal is being shut down.