Re: Apple //e variants

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast DOT net>]

"Paul Guertin" <pg@sff.net> wrote in message
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: On 14 Jun 2004 02:49:24 GMT, obsbedia2@aol.com (Obsbedia2)
wrote:
:
: > What I'd like is the ability to use the keyboard switch on my
//e from Canada
: > to switch from QWERTY to DVORAK, instead of the English and
French keyboard
: > characters.  I understand that both the keyboard and monitor
ROMS would have to
: > be changed, and that the //c already has the ROMS with the
code in place for
: > it's ability to do just that.
:
: As far as I know, the "language switch" on Canadian computers
affects
: only the video ROM. That is, when you push the ] key, the ASCII
code
: for ] is sent to the computer. The only thing the switch does
is change
: how that character is displayed on the screen (it gets shown as
�, that
: is, a section mark). So even if you made a new video rom that
had
: "O" instead of "S" and so on, it wouldn't work. You'd type
(using the
: Dvorak keyboard) the line HOME but the computer would "see"
JSMD and
: reply "ZOFBYAQ >PPSP".

This is correct. No matter what the characters are they
will correspond to the ASCII codes associated with those
keys. We could copy the keyboard rom from the IIc and
put a switch on that for you.  :o)  Or possibly jumper
the wires to the keyboard connector to make the switch
switch that instead of the CharGen Video ROM.

Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprizez };-)
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