Re: What would you do? (Large lot of systems)

[Phil Beesley <pb14@le.ac.uk>]

In article <38ECA210.91AD179F@intergate.bc.ca>, Wayne Stewart
<waynes@intergate.bc.ca> wrote:

> This switch wouldn't by anyhand be the same as the one on some north american
> IIes
> for swiching between keyboard layouts such as qwerty and dovorak.?
> 
> Quadrajet1 wrote:
> 
> >     I was shopping the local computer thrift store, and saw a stack of II+'s
> > and //e's.  The //e's were marked $7.95 and I spotted one with a keyboard
> > that
> > didn't look right.  Popped the top, and found the RAMworks III card in the
> > middle of the motherboard.  Yes, I found a European //e, the one with the
> > PAL
> > motherboard, and the extra long 220V power supply.  Anyone know what the
> > switch
> > on the bottom does?
> >

In the UK, the switch allows us to exchange # (the hash symbol) for �
(the UK pounds symbol). The switch works differently on other European
keyboard layouts.

Phil