Apple ][ keyboard encoder

From: Sam Ismail <dastar_at_ncal.verio.com>
Date: Mon Sep 14 18:11:36 1998

On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, James Willing wrote:

> As I recall, (going a little out on a limb here) you are correct on the J2
> connector. That was to support an Apple marketed numeric keypad. And, I
> believe that the other switch (along with cutting the marked pads) enables
> lower case encoding.
>
> Which of course does little good on an Apple II / II+ with standard ROMs.

True. You still needed to acquire (or burn) a character ROM with
lowercase characters.

Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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