Re: Apple II+ keyboard weirdness (help with repair)

["Peter Ibbotson" <spambox@ibbotson.demon.co.uk>]

"Gary Gouriluk" <gvgouril@shaw.ca> wrote in message
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> Speaking of keyboards...
> I have a platinum IIe with a strange keyboard. It produces a British pound
> sign (L with a line through it) where the # is. The basic prompt is a kind
> of S with a circle in the middle and it also has some vowel with various
> accent keys. On these keys it shows 3 or 4 symbols like the normal french
> canadian keyboard. On the IIgs the keyboard is selectable. Are there dips
> or anything to change this on the IIe?


If it's like the non platinum //e there's a switch on the front slope
underneath the keyboard. Effectively it just changes the display character
set, for some machines I think it also modifies the keyboard layout.

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