14 Sep
1998
14 Sep
'98
6:49 p.m.
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