Re: apple IIe

["Basil Holloway" <farl7@bigpond.com>]

Jon, thanks for reply. Do you know any sites that sell Apple IIe parts ?
"Jon Co" <jon@i-manila.com> wrote in message
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> the numeric keypad connector is wired in parallel to the main keyboard
> connector so any problems with the main keyboard will reflect on the
> keypad.  From the IIe technical reference manual/s schematics, It
> could mean a problem with your keyboard (shorts, etc which explain why
> the numeric keypad is flaky as well) or the 3600PRO keyboard encoder.
> or the character map ROM.  If you have a different working unit it
> would be easy to swap things in and out but I presume you don't.  Your
> caps lock key could be broken too.  and if any of the above mentioned
> chips are socketed, they could have been jarred lose during transport.
>
> Um. now that I'm looking at the diagram, I see some solder pad X
> cutoff area around the ROM.  Can I connect this to a 2 pole switch (1
> to 5v other to gnd) to achieve something like the //c's keyboard
> switch?  Do IIe keyboard encoder ROMS contain the dvorak layout on its
> alternate keyset?  are there any other dvorak typists out there
> reading this?
> "Basil Holloway" <farl7@bigpond.com> wrote in message
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> > I have a twin FDD, 80 col Apple IIe model A2S2064P with printer and
> > monitor.The Apple goes through both self the self tests ok.
> >
> > The keyboard and seperate numerical key pad only gives partial correct
> > signals to the screen ie some characters or numbers appear correctly and
> > others appear as a green square. Hitting enter always gives a ?. Cannot
get
> > upper case for any character.
> >
> > Any ideas ?