Scott Alfter

["Basil Holloway" <farl7@bigpond.com>]

Have this switch on my Apple IIE on the outside of the case under the
Keyboard but using it in both settings makes no difference to my problem.
"Scott Alfter" <salfter@salfter.dyndns.org> wrote in message
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> In article <20030127212619.20607.00000527@mb-fo.aol.com>,
> Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:
> >Jon Co wrote:
> >>Um. now that I'm looking at the diagram, I see some solder pad X
> >>cutoff area around the ROM.  Can I connect this to a 2 pole switch (1
> >>to 5v other to gnd) to achieve something like the //c's keyboard
> >>switch?  Do IIe keyboard encoder ROMS contain the dvorak layout on its
> >>alternate keyset?
> >
> >That's exactly what it is, but the normal keyboard ROM does not
> >contain an alternate set.  You need a 2x ROM to do that.
>
> Some IIes sold in foreign markets had a switch to go between standard
ASCII
> and the local character set.  The German-spec IIe that belonged to my
> AFJROTC squadron in Kaiserslautern was like this...flip the switch one
way,
> and @[\]{|}~ became ��������.  As an added bonus, Y and Z were swapped,
> which was annoying when you went to punch something into AppleWorks and
all
> your Zs came up as Ys and vice versa.
>
> (How they scored a IIe (and a foreign-spec one at that) when the rest of
> DoDDS was stuck with Ataris, I don't know...maybe they got their funding
> from Air Training Command or the Air Force instead of DoDDS.)
>
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