On Sun, 29 Jul 2001 at 23:04:35, you wrote:
(ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
>And another thing (which I only just noticed)...
>
>The feet that come with this QL clip into slots in the bottom of the case,
>rather than grip the existing little rubber feet like normal. Also, each
>foot has a rubber pad to prevent slippage, and there's only two of them
>(although someone may have lost one, since there are still three slots in
>the polystyrene).
>
>I have put a picture of the keyboard at
>http://www.solutionengineers.com/oldstuff/ql/ql.html - anyone who is
>remotely interested is welcome to take a look.
The top row of that layout, without the '0 )' is very like the IBM
German layout - in fact 1-9 are exactly the same, including the shifted
3 squiggle. .... but not the rest of the layout.
Certainly odd. I reckon it is a German Samsung QL, with a substitute
English JM ROM, and minimal key changes. Odd though, becaus eth JM
would not drive shift 1-9 to match the keys. Are you sure the ROMs are
not reblown onto eproms (a window on the chip) - with a modified kbd
table.
In Europe, I think only the German one had the 9D connectors. Has it
lots of extra decoupling caps, spring GD connector to kbd, and extra
foil on the edge of the kbd plate, and some toroidal chokes? That was
the usual thing.
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