Re: Apple Design Keyboard II on IIGS

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

Chris Johnston (wakemich@flood.xnet.com) wrote:
: I recently bought a replacement keyboard to use, and it's the Apple 
: Design Keyboard II I believe, which is with Mac hardware in most computer 
: stores.

Its official name is AppleDesign extended keyboard I think

: I was wondering if there is some way to get the lights that say "Num 
: Lock", and "Caps Lock" to light up.  It would be nice since the Caps Lock 
: Key does not stay down as the regular IIGS keyboard did.

There's a way - get a ROM 3.

: Sometimes the CAPS LOCK key freezes, and all the words I type are in 
: caps.  This is annoying especially if I'm working on something like FTP, 
: because I can't type a period.  I've pressed the Caps Lock Key numerous 
: times, and tried a lot of other things too, but to no avail.  Is there a 
: special driver that I might need, or something that would fix this problem?

I doubt Apple bothers to test stuff with ROM 01s any more. They may not with
ROM 3s even. Since the ADB controller in ROM 3s are completely redesigned and
there is more ROM space, I'd say the chances of getting new devices to work
are much better.

If you wander into the misc.forsale.computers.mac groups you might find an
extended keyboard II for sale. Aside from the lights these work with ROM 01s.
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