Re: IIGS keyboard

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <34f85ef1.372336@news.srv.ualberta.ca>,
Roy Schmaus <schmaus@ee.ualberta.ca> wrote:
>After posting to this group for help I was informed that Apple and 
>IBM keyboards were incompatible and that the IIGS could use a 
>Mac Keyboard. Eventually a surplus Mac keyboard as found & sent over.
>Some time later I was called to set up the system, it was then that 
>I found no RJ11 keyboard jack anywhere on the IIGS.

   That keyboard was 'surplus' for a darn good reason: Macs built
after the Apple IIGS (Mac SE and up) borrowed the much better ADB
keyboard design from the GS. Only the original Mac and Mac Plus can
use that keyboard; ask for a Mac keyboard of a more recent vintage:
ADB.

>The start up screen indicated ROM5.

   You must mean 01 or 3, I hope. Or, that's got custom-burnt ROMs
and/or is another escapee from Apple's den of even better Apple II
computers that they ditched.

>Does anyone have any technical information on which mainboard pad 
>goes to which pin on the RJ11 (Mac Keyboard) jack I'm thinking of 
>installing on this thing?

   Don't bother. Not compatible. The ROM 00/01 motherboard had
solderpoints and/or connectors to let the //e keyboard plug in, but
that's a completely different style.

Nathan Mates
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