Re: Can I plug a Mac keyboard into a IIGS?

[shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <4r2eaa$lic@nnrp1.news.primenet.com>,
John Bowling <johnlb@primenet.com> wrote:

>I'm using the latest one (about 8 months old) and it has a problem with
>caps lock where it must be pressed twice after a power up (of the keyboard)
>before it is in sequence.  It is not the old style with a mechanical latch,
>but has an electronic latch which forgets on power up, and seems to alway
>come up in the wrong state, thus the double press before it works.

I'm guessing that you mean the Appledesign extended keyboard, and your IIgs
is a ROM 01. I imagine that the ROM 3 doesn't have the problem, or at least
since it supports the lights on extended keyboards, you can tell whether
caps lock is on or not.

>I don't know if it does this on a Mac, or if it is just a defect in my unit.

All Powerbooks have the toggle style caps lock. Early ones have no light to
tell which state it's in, so you have to use a control panel that puts an
up arrow on the menu bar so you can tell. Later powerbooks have a light on
the key. I've never shut down my powerbook with caps lock on so can't say
for sure but I figure it remembers the state caps lock was in last.
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