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From: aoki@husc8.HARVARD.EDU (Edwin Aoki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Extended Keyboard
Summary: keyboard lights
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Date: 2 Feb 90 00:59:37 GMT
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In article <18870@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> lnb@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Speaker for the Dead) writes:
>I have Macintosh SE and an extended keyboard.  I have noticed that, of the
>three lock lights (num lock, caps lock, scroll lock), only the caps lock light
>works when the caps lock key is depressed.  I know the other two lights work
>because they flash when I turn on the computer, but when I hit the num lock or
>scroll lock keys, the lights don't turn on.  Does anyone know what the problem
>is, and if there is anything I can do about it?
>
Apple does not intend for the lights to do anything, really.  There is no
problem; they can be accessed through the ADB driver (I don't have my
Inside Mac V handy...), but they're not intended to be used by macintosh
software.  It think it's more for PC emulation stuff, though I don't know
if programs like SoftPC support it.

I suppose it's possible to hook up an INIT or something to get the lights to
turn on when the keys are pressed, but you'd probably have to talk to some-
one in comp.sys.mac.programmer about that....

Hope this helps (and if anyone out there has found a way to get the darn
lights to do something, please let ME know, too).

-Edwin Aoki
(aoki@husc8.harvard.edu/aoki@husc8.bitnet)

P.S.  The lights on the DataDesk 101 keyboard are Power On, Shift Lock, and
Window Lock...