Apple ][+ Keyboard

John Many Jars john at yoyodyne-propulsion.net
Thu May 23 09:31:02 CDT 2019


Weird... now I've pulled it apart (taken the case off and pulled out the
keyboard... and I get many wrong characters instead of no characters...

Hmmm.  I wonder what happens if you take all the screws out of this thing?
I hope it's not like an IBM AT keyboard and 83 tiny springs fly out...

On Thu, 23 May 2019 at 15:01, John Many Jars <john at yoyodyne-propulsion.net>
wrote:

> That would be great.  I'd really appreciate it.
>
> On Thu, 23 May 2019 at 14:08, Adrian Graham via cctalk <
> cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi Mark,
>>
>> I have a contact in Belgium who has made some PS2 adapter PCBs if you'd
>> like me to put you in contact, he was advertising them on Facebook a week
>> or so ago.
>>
>> --
>> adrian/witchy
>> Owner of Binary Dinosaurs, the UK's biggest private home computer
>> collection?
>> t: @binarydinosaurs    f: facebook.com/binarydinosaurs
>> w: www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 23 May 2019 at 13:22, John Many Jars via cctalk <
>> cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi Brian,
>> >
>> > That's an interesting thread.  It probably is the encoder chip as
>> hitting
>> > Ctrl-Reset works.  Unfortunately Briel Computers doesn't seem to exist
>> > anymore. ):
>> >
>> > This seems like a temporary solution.  I need to collect the stuff to
>> build
>> > one:
>> >
>> > https://knzl.at/ps2-keyboard-for-apple-ii/
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>> >
>> > Mark
>> >
>> > On Wed, 22 May 2019 at 17:00, Brian Marstella <brian at marstella.net>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > > Just ran across this a few days ago on different search...
>> > >
>> > > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.sys.apple2/kJ4SosdZTb4
>> > >
>> > > May have some helpful info.
>> > >
>> > > On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 11:56 AM John Many Jars via cctalk <
>> > > cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>> > >
>> > >> I feel like I'm falling down a rabbit hole with this old ][ europlus
>> > I've
>> > >> had for years.
>> > >>
>> > >> The smoke came out of the power supply, so I replaced it with one
>> from
>> > >> ReactiveMicro.  Now it boots, and was working okay, until this
>> morning.
>> > >> Now, no keyboard <except> if you hit ctrl-reset.  All other keys are
>> > >> ignored.
>> > >>
>> > >> Anyone have any ideas? (:
>> > >>
>> > >> Thanks,
>> > >>
>> > >> John (aka Mark)
>> > >>
>> > >
>> >
>> > --
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>> >
>>
>
>
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