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Subject: RE: Technical Questions (mostly ADB)
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Date: 16 Apr 89 23:27:00 GMT
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To maybe attack a few of these questions:

Programming the num-lock, caps lock and scroll lock lights of an extended
keyboard is an is an art of black magic, even on the Macintosh.  Its
documented deep in a technote somewhere, but even then, its not easy.
It can probaly be done from a GS, but I wouldn't know how.  Yes, the
keyboard can be read "directly", through ADB, if you really want to.
Inserting that keystroke into the buffer yourself is strange.  Why
manually do something the IIgs already does?

As far as the last request goes, you're in luck.  A company called KMW
makes a twin-axial protocol converter that's compatible with just about
anything that uses a serial port.  All the software on your computer has
to do is talk VT-100, which is a no-brainer.  We have sveral of the suckers
in our Charlotte, NC distribution center, where they talk to our brand
new, incredible disgusting IBM AS/400.

--Rick Ewing
  Apple Atlanta