2 May
2013
2 May
'13
12:52 p.m.
On 04/30/2013 07:52 PM, Steven Hirsch wrote:
On Tue, 30 Apr 2013, Jules Richardson wrote:
Yes, that worked nicely :) Using the self-test key sequence that Mike
mentioned (in my IIe thread) does its thing for a while and then comes back
with a "system good" message, so that was good to see!
Anyway, the machine with the SCSI card looks to
be an earlier board, and
has a keyboard socket soldered to the PCB. Wikipedia seems to suggest
that this should accept the keyboard from my IIe, albeit with reduced
functionality over a genuine ADB keyboard - however, is it as simple as
plugging it in, or are there other tweaks that are necessary for it to
work? (e.g. perhaps worst-case a ROM change for a ROM that I don't have!).
Although I'd like to get an ADB keyboard and rodent, I'm curious to see
if the IIe keyboard will work in the meantime...
If it has the IIe style connector, then it's one of the earlier ROM 1
boards. They were sold with a replacement bottom pan as a retrofit for 2e
machines. The board probably also has a conventional, square 6-pin power
connector in addition to the single-inline 2gs power header.
Go ahead and connect the 2e keyboard. I would love to get my hands on one of those bottom
pans for my Apple 2
collection.
I'm not sure what I'm doing with mine yet - it probably depends on whether
the SCSI card works in both machines (and I *think* the later ROM is more
useful, allowing the system to run some stuff that the v1 ROM won't).
cheers
Jules