Re: Received an interesting Apple II Clone

[Conrad <conrad.russo@gmail.com>]

That's a good idea.  I will have to brush up on my PIC programming,
but it shouldn't be too much of a challenge.  I'll give it a shot and
let you know how it works out.  In the meantime, see what you can find
out from the 8048, that would definitely help.


On Apr 2, 1:32 pm, David Wilson <mcs6...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 3, 5:18 am, Conrad <conrad.ru...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I don't have the full set of manuals.
>
> I have two manuals - one covers the MPF-III BASIC and the other the
> MPF-III itself.
>
> > I'm going to see what I can do
> > to adapt an original Apple II keyboard to it.  The pinout there really
> > helps.  Is there no way to dump the code from the microcontroller?  I
> > thought there was a way to read the code out of them.  I'll see if
> > it's possible to dump the code, and if it is, I'll build the circuit
> > required and send it to you so you can dump it for me, if that's
> > alright with you.
>
> The Apple II keyboard (even the Apple IIe keyboard) does not have as
> many keys as the MPF-III keyboard. A PC keyboard would be a better
> match and a small uC could be programmed to interface between the MPF-
> III keyboard connector and the PS/2 connector.
>
> I doubt the 8048 in the MPF-III keyboard is even socketed (but I will
> check).