Re: Oddball IIe on eBay

[scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter)]

In article <j0budt$hle$1@dont-email.me>,
David Schmidt  <schmidtd@my-deja.com> wrote:
>On 7/22/2011 9:09 AM, Steven Hirsch wrote:
>> Auction: 270786212072
>>
>> Does anyone know anything about this system?
>
>What I know about that system is that it has a Laser 128 keyboard. :-)

Just as a guess, the board over the power supply produces ASCII output from
the Laser 128 keyboard, probably with lowercase as well as uppercase.  I'm
guessing it also routes the Open-Apple and Solid-Apple keys to the joystick
port (so they work as in a IIe or later machine).  What the DB-9 connector
hanging off the joystick port is supposed to be, I don't know...it could be
wired the same way as a IIe/IIc/IIGS joystick port, but you'd need a
gender-bender to plug one in.

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