Re: Quark

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

Nathan Mates <nathan@visi.com> wrote:

> In article <6j3eqv$ke0$1@maya.ece.ufl.edu>,
> Marteem Lee DuBose  <afn05515@afn.org> wrote:
> >I resently bought an a2 e that had a little  device that pluged in between
> >the keyboard pins on the motherboard and the cable from the keyboard and
> >also had a connector that went over to the 16 pin internal game I/O.
> 
>    Shift-key modification, probably bundled with a word processor
> (Quark-- it was around before its Mac incarnations). Holdover from the
> ][ and ][+ days when lowercase required hardware addons to
> accomplish. Now, software doesn't need all the hacks to get such stuff
> working.

Hang on, Marteem said this was a IIe.

Why would Quark bother making a special device to do a shift-key mod in
the IIe, when there is an option for it on the motherboard?  (The II+
and IIe have different keyboard connection arrangements, so this device
wouldn't work in a II+.)