Re: DVORAK keyboard on //e??!!!

[dalloff@gcfn.org (Dave Althoff Jr)]

Obsbedia2 (obsbedia2@aol.com) wrote:
: << 
: With an international IIe, there is a switch under the front right
: corner of the machine which selects between two character sets in the
: video and keyboard ROMs (local and US English), so you could burn a new
: PROM with the international half set to Dvorak layout (you'd probably
: also want to duplicate the US character set into both halves of the
: video ROM).>>
: Thanks for the info.  I never heard of that feature on any //e before.

: Sounds like I might want to keep an eye out for an international //e.  Was it
: developed to the level of the board used in the Platinum //es (mousetext  and
: color blocker when using text on color screen)?

Don't know about MouseText, but the color killer circuit you describe was
introduced with the Autostart ROM, Applesoft BASIC, and the Apple ][+!  8-)

--Dave Althoff, ][.

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