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Re: apple IIe
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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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