Re: Apple IIGS motherboard in an Apple IIe case

["Jeff Blakeney" <jeff.blakeney@a2central.com.remove-5kv-this>]

  To: Polymorph
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 19:17:53 -0700, Polymorph wrote:

> If its a ROM 03 board then you will not have the keyboard solder
> points and I don't know how you'd go about attaching the //e keyboard
> in this case. If it is possible (I'm not even sure it is), it would be
> fairly difficult. You could always plug an ADB keyboard into the usual
> IIgs socket, but it would look a bit weird having the //e keyboard
> (not functional) in addition to an ADB keyboard.

I upgraded my IIe to a IIgs many years ago and used the IIe keyboard for
quite some time but I ended up getting an ADB keyboard (a French
Canadian Mac SE keyboard I believe) for a straight swap with my IIe
keyboard which had one broken keycap.  The guy I traded with wanted my
keyboard for parts.  I ended up just sitting the Mac SE ADB keyboard
over the hole in the IIe case.  If I really wanted to, I could have
glued it there too.  :-)

A real IIgs ADB keyboard might fit in that spot better and it is always
possible to modify the case to accomodate one of the ADB keyboards that
exist that work with the IIgs.

By the way, I later bought a IIgs case as a service part from an Apple
dealer and moved my IIgs into it.  I never did get a IIgs power supply
for that case so I used my IIe power supply as an external supply.  Much
later I ended up with several more IIgs units including two ROM 3
machines and I've been using those ever since.  :-)
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