Re: Needing help upgrading a IIe!

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article david@wraith.cs.uow.edu.au (David E A Wilson) writes...
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>dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff) writes:
>>Apart from that, I can't think of any difficulties with the enhancement. 
>>If I were a bit more inventive, I'd come up with a switch to toggle
>>between the original and enhanced video ROM, and leave everything else
>>enhanced.
> 
>PAL //e computers already have the switch built in :-)
>Read Jim Sather's Understanding the Apple //e for instructions for fitting
>such a switch to an NTSC //e.

   Canadian (NTSC) Apple IIe's also have a switch under the keyboard, 
so users can toggle between English and French (although few people  
outside this province speak French; the majority are in Quebec). Any 
Americans wishing to do this modication can purchase a IIe CPU from up 
north and they'll have the switch and motherboard jumper. All they'd then 
need is a dual Video ROM (Mousetext one half, old character set the other).

   I myself swapped my Canadian IIe CPU for an American one. I never
used the alternate (French) character set, and found the American one
had a _much_ nicer feeling keyboard than any of my previous ones. Speaking
of which, I would like to take back what I said about IIe keyboards having
a poor feel to them in a post several months ago. :-) 

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca