Re: Keyboard conversion project? IIGS portable ideas

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

In article <wGvfa.16051$9G.4478168@twister.socal.rr.com>, "Bryan Villados"
<news002@macgeek.org> writes:

>Y'know, I just thought of something after reading Glenn's comments. If you
>had an Apple IIGS logic board with the IIe keyboard connector, you could
>pretty much ditch the ADB idea and instead try to make an Apple IIe keyboard
>out of the Toshiba keyboard. I would imagine the IIe keyboard is a lot
>simpler than the IIGS keyboard, in that I believe the keyboard controller
>for the IIe keyboard is on the IIgs logic board itself. I could be wrong,
>though. :P

And, in the //e at least, the translation from keyboard scan code to
ASCII is in a replaceable ROM.  ;-)

Otherwise, you will need to re-create the Apple key matrix wiring on
the Toshiba keyboard, which would be painful at best and destructive
at worst.

-michael

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