SOL-20 keyboard (fwd)

From: Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com>
Date: Wed Mar 6 09:41:04 2002

> As you will note, Barry authorized this posting.

As of this date, I've tried three or four times to contact
barry, with no response yet.

If any SOL jocks *have* been able to contact him, could
you have him contact me?

TIA!

-dq


> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 17:24:45 -0500
> From: Barry A. Watzman <Watzman_at_neo.rr.com>
> To: 'Don Maslin' <donm_at_cts.com>
> Subject: RE: SOL-20 keyboard
>
> I won't but you may if you want to.
>
> Barry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Don Maslin [mailto:donm_at_cts.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 1:05 AM
> To: Barry A. Watzman
> Subject: Re: SOL-20 keyboard
>
>
>
> On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Barry A. Watzman wrote:
>
> > By the way, in 1977 I made and sold a SOL-20 keyboard
> modification kit
> > that included a new ROM for the keyboard and new keytops.
> The new ROM
> > made the high order bit of the numeric keypad keys a "1"
> instead of a
> > "0". This made it possible to distinguish between the keys in the
> > numeric keypad and the numeric keys in the top row of the normal
> > keyboard (in the stock keyboard, these different keys
> produced exactly
> > the same output). This was transparent to normal
> applications because
> > they normally did an "ANI 7FH" anyway, stripping this bit, but it
> > could be used by an application if the application wanted to do so.
>
> > The new keytops had word processing legends instead of numbers, and
> > really was made for the "Electric Pencil" and "Wordstar" word
> > processors. The keytops were actually made by Keytronic (I
> had to pay
> > tooling charges, about $1,000 (those were 1977 dollars, it was about
> > one-fourth the price of a new car)) and and matched the SOL keyboard
> > exactly.
> >
> > I have a few of these kits left in a box in the basement. If anyone
> > wants them, they are $25. What I'm not sure of is if I have the
> > installation instructions anywhere.
> >
> > [If anyone takes me up on this, I'm actually going to have
> to FIND that
> > box, which may be easier said than done.]
>
>
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>
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Received on Wed Mar 06 2002 - 09:41:04 GMT