Apple ][ keyboard encoder

From: Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
Date: Tue Sep 15 01:49:05 1998

On Sep 14, 16:11, Sam Ismail wrote:
> 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.

A few years ago, I made the mod and created a suitable character set ROM
image, which I burned into a 2716. If anybody wants it, you can pick up
the ROM image at

    http://www.dunnington.u-net.com/public/NewCG

-- 
Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Dept. of Computer Science
						University of York
Received on Tue Sep 15 1998 - 01:49:05 BST

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