Re: IIGS keyboard

[schmaus@ee.ualberta.ca (Roy Schmaus)]

On Sat, 28 Feb 1998 19:05:14 GMT, schmaus@ee.ualberta.ca (Roy Schmaus)
wrote:

>Hello,
>
>A while back a friend was given an ex elementary school 
>Apple IIGS along with a box of software , monochrome monitor,
>joystick, and an IBM keyboard wired to a DB9 male connector 
>with pins 6 to 9 removed.  
>
>After posting to this group for help I was informed that Apple and 
>IBM keyboards were incompatible and that the IIGS could use a


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Thanks to all who replied.   The IIGS in question is some distance 
away and I will take a notepad along the next time I go to see it.
ROM5 may have just been written in error from memory.

This thing did come with an IBM keyboard wired to a 9 pin "D" 
connector. The keyboard also had a female "D" connector added.
Problem is that would only connect to the joystick port and this later

model IIGS would most likely use the Apple ADB keyboard in the 
DIN connector 'mouse' port.

Maybe it really is a 'ROM5' hack done by someone but for now it's 
part of the unexplained. The mainboard looks original though.
 
 

Roy Schmaus
http://www.ee.ualberta.ca/~schmaus/