Re: The Apple IIGS ADB Keyboard Lives!

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

Randy Shackelford <shack@onyx.southwind.net> wrote:

>Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote:
>
>: The IIGS keyboard uses switches and you can pry the IIGS
>: keycaps off to clean them exactly as you would any other ADB
>: keyboards.  I clean my IIGS keyboard and my Extended I
>: keyboard exactly the same way.
>
>My host ate my post about how the entire top comes off all the kbds I have
>aside from the IIgs kind. You take out the screws and all that comes off is 
>the flat part over the ports. I never got one any further apart than that. I
>saw one that someone had spilled something on and the keypad keys were busted 
>out like he tried to take it apart and it fell apart. No biggie since mine
>are where they can't get dirty anyway now.

You can take the IIGS keyboard apart.  I'll can find the article
that tells how to do it for you if you'd like.  The article talks
about completely taking it apart, cleaning it, and putting it back
together.

>: You need the Finder Extender INIT in your System.Setup folder
>: to enable them, that's all.  Since I can't seem to email you, I'm
>: attaching the INIT as a binscii file.  If you like the Extended II
>: THAT much and have some extra ones, put one of the extras on
>: your IIGS!  ;-)
>
>Actually I took out my .procmailrc file so I can get mail here now. Thanks

Great!

>but I don't have enough extended kbds to go around as it is. Plus I have the
>kbd I want on the IIgs already.

Well at least run it through ProTYPE and drop the INIT into
your System.Setup folder, then.  I did go through the trouble
of archiving and encoding it for you.  ;-)

It takes up only 2k of disk space and virtually no memory.  It
is ignored with the standard keyboard but detects extended
keyboards.  This is for GS/OS.  You can leave it in your
system with the standard keyboard.  No telling when you might
want to plug in an extended.

The major ProDOS 8 programs also support extended
keyboards.  ProTERM 3.1 does and I can get you a set of
macros that supports the page keys in AppleWorks Classic
too.  These keyboards a GREAT on the IIGS, especially
for VT100 and word processing.