Re: The clear key

[david@uow.edu.au (David Wilson)]

Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.bc.ca> writes:
>Mike Pfaiffer wrote:
>> All the clear key does is send out a <Ctrl-X> which cancels the current
>> line from BASIC. At least that's what I remember it doing.

>I guess I should try and see if there's any way to wire that into a IIe keyboard.
>I don't feel too hopefull as it doesn't seem likely that Apple allowed for a key
>that isn't on aby IIe keyboard.

The Platinum //e has a 2nd ESC key on its numeric keypad but I recall reading
somewhere (probably Open-Apple newsletter) that there is a jumper connection
to make it send ^X just like the clear key on a //gs.

The external numeric keypad on a beige //e has its own XY coordinates in the
keyboard decoder ROM so by changing the contents of the ROM you can make
any character key send anything you want.
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David Wilson  School of IT & CS, Uni of Wollongong, Australia