"key-pad" meaning in English

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          "text": "The user presses the key on his key-pad corresponding to the required topic. […] If a viewdata user wanted to find out more information about a service, all he would do is key in the right code on his key-pad.",
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          "ref": "1985 July, Jack Jones, “Networks and Microcomputers”, in Black Chip: A Journal of Computing for Anarchists, number 3, page 5, column 1:",
          "text": "For example, mail-order applications enable users to indicate, by numeric code on their key-pads an item to be purchased and a credit card number to be debited.",
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          "text": "In the 1970s, no educationist would have predicted the explosion in universal written communication caused by the personal computer, the internet and the key-pad of the mobile phone.",
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