Re: What is 'Encoder Bd Apple II' ????

[dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)]

Paul Guertin (guertinp@IRO.UMontreal.CA) wrote:
: [...]
: There is a slide switch, S1, by which the owner can select CTRL
: required or CTRL not required for RESET. Believe it or not, I knew
: an owner in Japan who left this switch in the CTRL not required
: position. However, that person was quirky by nature.

: End quote.

: The S1 switch in my II Plus is also in the CTRL not required position.
: It feels great to reset an Apple II with only one finger.

In my ][e, I made a little keyboard modification...cut an hourglass jumper
and solder across a diamond jumper...which does the same thing to that
machine.  It's really nice to be able to reset with one finger, and
re-boot with two.  In fact, I've been known to use SA-RESET-RESET to
reboot when the OA and RESET keys were just too far apart for my free hand...

Now if I could just figure out a way to do the same with my IIgs... 8-)

(can you tell that my favorite key on the ][e is RESET?  Especially when
running Apple Writer ][e, since RESET will always send you back to the
editor, even when you do something stupid, like try to print to a
non-existent printer...)

--Dave Althoff, Jr.
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