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From: matthew@sunpix.UUCP ( Sun Visualization Products)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: How do you do DVORAK?
Message-ID: <621@greens.UUCP>
Date: 19 May 89 16:35:37 GMT
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|With all this talk about DVORAK, I was wondering if anyone knows of a 
|way to get it on a II+ or Ace 1000.  Since people have referred several
|times, specifically to IIe ROMs, I would assume this can't be done, but
|I'm hoping someone tells me otherwise.

It cannot be done with a simple hack.  I've done something to my Apple //plus by
adding a 2716 eprom in line with the keyboard output, before it reached the 
motherboard.

I used it by taking the output of the keyboard encoder chip and feed it to the 
address pins of the EPROM. I then installed a pair of switches and wired those
to the other address pins. The output of the eprom was then dependant upon the 
output of the keyboard encoder and the state of the switches.

Now what did I use this for?  To add lowercase and shift-lock capabilities to the
Apple ][plus keyboard.


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