31 May
2010
31 May
'10
10:57 p.m.
On 05/31/2010 10:33 PM, r.stricklin wrote:
On May 31, 2010, at 9:58 PM, Eric Smith wrote:
It doesn't work with an XT, and there's no simple way to make it.
AFAIK, IBM's APL for the XT used a regular XT keyboard with either
stickers or replacement keycaps. I've never heard of APL2 for the XT,
but if such a thing existed, I'd expect it too would have wanted a
"normal" keyboard with APL keycaps, and not a 122-key keyboard as IBM
used on 327x or 317x terminals.
Eric
I recently got one of the APL ones (IBM P/N
1389194) and I'd like to
pull the microcontroller (probably an 8048 or equivalent) and replace
it with a microcontroller with a USB interface.
Dang, I've been looking for one of those to use with an XT I got in a
load of other nonsense, which had a CGA card with the APL ROM, and IBM
APL2 on the drive.
ok
bear