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Re: Quark

In article <1d8u8qx.1kyljl7hi2cvaN@dempson.actrix.gen.nz>, dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) writes...
>Nathan Mates <nathan@visi.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
>Hang on, Marteem said this was a IIe.
> 
>Why would Quark bother making a special device to do a shift-key mod in
>the IIe, when there is an option for it on the motherboard?  (The II+
>and IIe have different keyboard connection arrangements, so this device
>wouldn't work in a II+.)
> 
>From the description: it wouldn't need a chip on it if it was a simple
>shift-key mod.  There must be more to it than that, but nothing comes to
>mind.
> 
>-- 
>David Empson
>dempson@actrix.gen.nz
>Snail mail: P.O. Box 27-103, Wellington, New Zealand

Where did this computer come from? In my location, many of the
apples had such a device put in to allow for accented languages
such as French (which is our official language here). There
was software provided that modified dos or prodos so that 
certain keystrokes in any applications would produce the
accents needed.
--Jack