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

[salfter@salfter.dyndns.org (Scott Alfter)]

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In article <3EA9522E.D57EBB21@shaw.ca>,
Gary Gouriluk  <gvgouril@shaw.ca> top-posted (grr):
>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?

Try looking for a switch under the keyboard, on the right side (IIRC) of the
computer.  If you flip it one way, you get standard ASCII.  Flip it the
other way, and you'll get a different character set that depends on where
the computer was originally sold.  The switch is outside the case, in the
metal baseplate, so you don't have to open the computer to flip it.

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