Finally, I found some information on the "Executive Peripheral Systems"
Keyboard. I've had this thing for several years, and found some
information using Google. It is for the Apple II computer and the
following is a description of the keyboard:
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The EPS Keyboard
Now,from CompuMusic (they of the AlphaSyntauri) comes a professional
keyboard which is better than that on the IBM PC. It has 12 special
function keys and a dedicated numeric pad plus four arrows for zapping
the cursor around. But more than this, it has a set of EPS Promware
models (that's a complicated trade name for an encased EMROM) which,
when plugged in, transforms the keyboard into precisely the right
configuration for a given program. For example you can plug in VisiCalc,
Applewriter l l, Screenwriter l l, Wordstar and several others. Once you
have plugged in your Prom you have a command template, a sort of plastic
overlay, which tells you what each key represents.
This small genius of an idea plugs directly into your motherboard and if
you like you can have both your original keyboard and your EPS keyboard
working at the same time just in case you want to play duets. Are there
any problems? None. There is a decision you have to make as to where you
will place your computer. But that is not a problem. It's a decision.
We wish that Apple had the intelligence to provide such a keyboard. As
they didn't, Executive Peripheral Systems did and CompuMusic brought it
to Australia.
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The URL where I got the above review is at:
http://www.educate.net.au/~apple2/magazines/aar/addons.html
Received on Tue Apr 09 2002 - 12:39:38 BST