30 Apr
2013
30 Apr
'13
5:52 p.m.
On Tue, 30 Apr 2013, Jules Richardson wrote:
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.
Steve
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