Re: Help Identify This Odd IIe

[Stephen Harker <s-harker@adfa.edu.au>]

sirthomas@aol.com (SirThomas) writes:

> So, there I was, wandering through a Goodwill store's electronic
> section looking for bits of nostalgia when I saw this IIe.
> Normally, I just pass them by.  Lots of IIes show up in Goodwill
> stores.  But this one.  It's odd.
> [...] 
> And wierder about the keyboard, the keys have additional printing on them:
> 
> 1:  Delete Line
> 2:  Delete (paragraph symbol)
> 4:  Move / Copy
> [...]
> M:  Goto Menu
> 
> You want even weirder?  The keybaord cable is on a daughterboard
> with the word "Quark" on it. The daughterboard not only jumpers the
> keyboard jack, It jumpers the LS251 chip with a different chip:
> T74LS251B1 88041.

I haven't seen any followups on this question (though given a flaky
news feed this does not mean a lot).  My best guess follows from the
above mention of a daughterboard with `Quark' on it, and is from
memory and so not fully reliable.  In the early 80's Quark made a word
processing package for the Apple /// called `Word Juggler', when
ProDOS came out they made a version for the Apple //e.  As I recall
this came with new keycaps for the special word processing functions,
presumably the daughterboard was needed for this though I don't recall
it being mentioned.  So I guess this is an otherwise standard //e,
with whatever modifications came with Quark's `Word Juggler'.

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