Re: DVORAK keyboard on //e??!!!

[mfumu@alphalink.com.au (Bill Robbins)]

In article <20001126235728.22425.00002152@ng-ff1.aol.com>,
obsbedia2@aol.com (Obsbedia2) wrote:

>        I was always told that only the //c's keyboard could be DVORAK,
but I came
>across the following in the _Apple Thesaurus_ by Aaron Filler.  Published in
>1984, it covers the ][, ][+, //e and //c.  Could this apply to the IIgs as
>well?  I'm much faster on the //c typing on the DVORAK keyboad and I'd love to
>use it on the //e and maybe even the IIgs.
>        Jay Edwards
>
>pg. 135     "... interested //e and //c owners should be happy to learn that
>their machines have an optional Dvorak mode."
>                        "The //e and //c have a separate 2K ROM chip (see
Figure 8.3) which receives
>the AY-3600 output codes and treats them as part of a ROM address. ... Another
>interesting aspect is that it can respond as if the keyboard were in a Dvorak
>layout rather than a QWERTY layout.
>
>pg. 136     "Figure 8.3a:  The //e keyboard ROM permits reassignment of keys
>after decoding by the AY-3600."

Good to see that there are other Dvorak users in the Apple II kingdom.  I
switched in 1983 when I burned my own ROM for an Apple II+ clone with the
unlikely name of Honda.  (Anyone remember the "You meet the nicest
people.." ad?)
-- 
Bill Robbins, mfumu@alphalink.com.au