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Re: Quark



In article <6j3eqv$ke0$1@maya.ece.ufl.edu>,
Marteem Lee DuBose  <afn05515@afn.org> wrote:
>I resently bought an a2 e that had a little  device that pluged in between
>the keyboard pins on the motherboard and the cable from the keyboard and
>also had a connector that went over to the 16 pin internal game I/O.

   Shift-key modification, probably bundled with a word processor
(Quark-- it was around before its Mac incarnations). Holdover from the
][ and ][+ days when lowercase required hardware addons to
accomplish. Now, software doesn't need all the hacks to get such stuff
working.

Nathan Mates

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