Re: IIGS keyboard

[buggie@callisto.unm.edu (stephen e buggie)]

In my opinion, the oldest Macintosh keyboard was the best and I WISH I
could adapt it for the IIgs.   The oldest Mac keyboard was beige color,
had a similar keypress-feel to the classic IIe keyboard, and was compact
in size.

If anyone could make a working interface to work with A2, I'd be among the
first wave to use it!

Steve Buggie

: >After posting to this group for help I was informed that Apple and 
: >IBM keyboards were incompatible and that the IIGS could use a 
: >Mac Keyboard. Eventually a surplus Mac keyboard as found & sent over.
: >Some time later I was called to set up the system, it was then that 
: >I found no RJ11 keyboard jack anywhere on the IIGS.

:    That keyboard was 'surplus' for a darn good reason: Macs built
: after the Apple IIGS (Mac SE and up) borrowed the much better ADB
: keyboard design from the GS. Only the original Mac and Mac Plus can
: use that keyboard; ask for a Mac keyboard of a more recent vintage:
: ADB.

: >The start up screen indicated ROM5.

:    You must mean 01 or 3, I hope. Or, that's got custom-burnt ROMs
: and/or is another escapee from Apple's den of even better Apple II
: computers that they ditched.

: >Does anyone have any technical information on which mainboard pad 
: >goes to which pin on the RJ11 (Mac Keyboard) jack I'm thinking of 
: >installing on this thing?

:    Don't bother. Not compatible. The ROM 00/01 motherboard had
: solderpoints and/or connectors to let the //e keyboard plug in, but
: that's a completely different style.

: Nathan Mates